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Marina Plesons, Consultant at the WHO Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research, congratulated Scotland, saying that the legislation builds on efforts by other countries such as India and Kenya, which have national programmes to provide free menstrual products to girls in school. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in the UK said that it would also like to see school nurses, teachers, and health professionals continue to be alert in identifying and supporting girls experiencing period poverty, with robust and accurate education for girls from a young age about their bodies. Penelope Phillips-Howard, a public health epidemiologist (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK) who switched from malaria to menstrual research because the field was more neglected, said that the Scottish law was “fabulous news”.