This innovator is trying to make sanitary pads affordable for women in India
Arunachalam Murugananthan is known as India’s pad man. Breaking a strict taboo in India’s tradition-bound society, Murugananthan worked to perfect an affordable sanitary pad in hope of starting a movement to help women in the developing world. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports.
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