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Menstrual Hygiene Day: When menstruation feels like a curse

Agnes Mukuna suffers from endometriosis (Photo: Courtesy)

Agnes Mukuna knows what it means to experience abnormally painful menses.

“I was 16 when I started to menstruate. Not long after I noticed that I complained of pain more than other girls my age. I experienced debilitating pain. The kind that made even concentrating in class an impossibility,” she says.

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