For approximately 80% of Bangladeshi women, inaccessibility, affordability, cultural taboos and lack of education get in the way of their ability to use clean, safe sanitary products. The inadequate waste infrastructure, as well as the taboo nature of seeing and touching menstrual blood, also make waste disposal an issue. Women often throw pads out the window, use their feet to wash the cloth, then hide them to dry under their beds, flush them down toilets or even bury them at night. The impacts of these barriers on women are damaging: high infection rates, poor health, absence at work, and shame.