Afrika in Focus Health Special: Poisoned Sanitary Pads

This week's episode of Afrikan in Focus highlights a deeply concerning health issue namely poison in women's sanitary pads.

A viral TikTok in Kenya prompted public outrage and a coordinated petition against major manufacturers, alleging misleading labels and petroleum-based (toxic) materials in sanitary pads products marketed as cotton. The stakes are not only personal—skin irritation, odour issues, and potential exposure—but societal, touching on dignity, access, and trust in essential health products.

Brands that have been identified include, Always, Pampers, Kotex, and Huggies.  The significance of these brands is these are regularly imported into Afrikan countries generally raising concerns about sovereignty and economic independence.

We touch on some of the ramifications of this scandal including the de population agenda.

We highlight de population as this has to be taken into consideration given the nature of some of these hideous sanitary pads.  We urge ALL public health authorities across Afrika to see this incident as a massive wake up call and take pro active steps to ensure EVERY sanitary pad entering the Afrikan market be rigorously examined and checked, because basically THE LIVES OF AFRIKAN WOMEN and YOUNG GIRLS is literally at risk.

We urges consumers to treat pads like any intimate medical product: inspect packaging, note smell and texture, and report defects immediately. Universities and accredited labs can test samples, while civil groups can coordinate community audits and hotlines. 

We end by highlighting promising local solutions. Innovators in Ghana are producing biodegradable pads made from banana and plantain fibre, converting agricultural waste into soft, absorbent products. This approach lowers costs, reduces plastic waste, and builds jobs while shortening fragile import supply chains  -  More importantly is takes back control, ownership and sovereignty of the Afrikan woman's re productive rights by producing a product aimed specifically at Afrikan women.  

Sources:

Kenyan Women SHOCKED to FIND MOULD in Sanitary PADS! Follow 7 TRILLION CASE SUING Manufacturer on x

Secret Origins of the Depopulation Agenda | Human Life International

Where you can purchase safe, natural biodegradable sanitary pads: Kodutechnology

Chapters

• 0:03 Welcome And Health-Focused Theme
• 0:40 Subscribe, Follow, And Support Requests
• 2:16 Kenya’s Viral Video And Allegations
• 4:58 The Lawsuit And Consumer Rights Claims
• 6:52 Survey Findings And Continental Stakes
• 9:04 Regulators Questioned And Systemic Failures
• 11:30 Population Control Claims And Disease History
• 16:12 Call For Vigilance And Product Testing
• 18:26 Local Solutions: Biodegradable Pads In Ghana
• 22:32 Why Local Production Matters
• 25:12 Final Warnings And Next Week’s Tease

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:03

Good evening and welcome to this week's edition of Africa in Focus with myself Kwame, Ghanaian writer, broadcaster, journalist, podcast, and entrepreneur. And in this week's edition in Africa in focus, it's a special regards to health. And the topic is ScientryPads Danger. Yeah, so this is a very, very important uh podcast. If you are a woman or if you are a husband with a wife, or if you have young girls, this is very, very important. You must take this very, very seriously. Okay, so before we get into the show, talking about the dangers of the new danger in Sancho Pads, just to make you aware that if you like what you hear, please share it to your friends, family, social media networks. Subscribe to Ghana African Fix on YouTube. Uh, click on the notification bell, subscribe, meaning that every time we upload a new podcast, you'll be notified by YouTube. Also, look out for Ghana African Fix on Spotify. 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Very important show looking about the now dangers of black women, doesn't matter where you are in the world, wearing cycle pads. So I've got a video by one of our Kenyan um YouTubers, Dr. Mumbi, uh, which I'll put in the fullness of the show regarding a concern in Kenya over moldy and toxic central pads. Now check this moldy and toxic sanitary pads. The central pad is what young girls and women put you know in their vagina to you know protect them, particularly when they're on the menstrual cycle. Yeah, but there's now we're a sinister and wicked agenda regarding the use of centripads, and we're gonna explain more in the podcast. So in Kenya, there's been a growing concern over moldy and potentially toxic scientific, particularly involving, involving rather the always brand. Now, a video went viral in Kenya, yeah, and as a result of this, a major court case has sparked public outrage and legal action. So, what has sparked the outrage in Kenya in regards to um this issue with sanitary pads? So, a viral TikTok video showed what appeared to be mold, insects, yeah, and contaminants inside the sealed pack of always menstrual pads. Yeah, always is a very popular brand across Africa. Yeah. Now, although the video may not be found in Kenya, it has resonated strongly with Kenyan consumers due to past concerns about product safety. Now, the video reignited fears about sanitary pad quality, especially among women who rely on affordable brands. Yeah, so because of this video that went viral, showing you, yeah, and like I said, I got the video that I'll show you uh in the fullness of the show, the video showed moldy, dirty, stinking sanitary pads, and this is in Kenya. Just to think, God knows what's what's been sold in in many countries like Ghana, Nigeria, etc. And I'll tell you there's a sinister agenda behind it, but I'll come to that in a minute. But because of this, now over 2,800 Kenyan consumers started a petition at the Kenyan High Court in Nairobi against Procter Gamble. They're the makers of Always and Pampas, yeah, and Kimberly Cup, who are the makers of Cortex and Huggers. Now, Procter Gamble is a very, very notorious company. No, sorry about that. I was thinking Johnson Johnson, no, they're the ones you know with the baby powder. But Procter Gamble is also a very, very notorious um company when it comes to uh these kind of products, and so the petition accuses both Procter Gamble and Kimberly Clark of selling products, i.e., cylindry pads containing petrolatum oil, while marketing them as being 100% cotton. That is wickedness. How can you say something is pure cotton when it has come out, it's emulated through some of the tests that have been done that these centropy pads, so-called, are made of petrolatum, and petrolatum is basically chemical, it's a byproduct of oil, yeah? So the petition also accuses these companies of violating consumer rights, public health standards, and environmental regulations. The Law Society of Kenya has joined the case arguing that its members are affected and that the issue of greater public interest is raised. Yeah? Now check this now. Check this. In 2025, i.e. this year, a report by Ngubu Collective surveyed more than 9,000 women and girls to rank 19 scientific pads brands in Kenya. The report assessed adesis germ, material composition, skin irritation, absorbency, odor control, and overall user experience. Now the findings of this report highlighted significant satisfaction, um I beg pardon, significant dissatisfaction with certain brands, including always, especially regarding skin irritation and order order control, that was smell. Yeah. So this case in Kenya has broader implications for the African continent. So Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Sierra Alone, the Gambia, everywhere that imports these centropads, particularly always and some of the other brands. Yeah. So the broad implication is that the scandal in Kenya has sparked a national and even content discussion about menstrual health, corporate accountability, and the need for transparent product labelling. It also underscores the importance of regulating feminine hygiene products, which are often overlooked in public health policy. Yeah, so these are some of the concerns that have been raised out of the report into the wider concerns of this scientific, yeah. And one thing, why are these centropads allowed to come to Kenya? Yeah, and African African country wrote the regular checks. How does someone buy centroids that apparently pass over the checks at the FDA, Defending Drugs Administration in Kenya must have passed the checks to allow them to enter the country? Or was somebody sleeping at the desk? Was somebody sleeping at the job? Not really taking charge, looking into the quality and the makeup of these poisonous, dirty, stinking scientific pads. Let me tell you, there's a there's a the there's there's an even a wider and even wicked agenda behind this now. I keep on saying about population control. The white man was to kill African people, period. There's no if, no but, no conspiracy theory, right? It's out there in the public. Yeah, just just you read many documents like Global 2000, like National Security Memorandum 1974, yeah, like many, many other reports, right? The agenda is to kill black people, African people. Why why is it if that was not true, why is it then that AIDS, Ebola, monkeypox hit Africa hard? And yet we know these diseases, right? Monkeypox was not invented in Africa, it was invented in the laboratory in Copenhagen in Denmark in 1958. So, how the hell is a virus or a biological I had to call it a biological warfare weapon? How come? Yeah, it was invented in the laboratory in Denmark. How did it find its way to Africa? If there's not if there's not a sinister agenda behind that, you tell me we know the AIDS was invented in Africa, we knew it was invented in the lab in Fort Dietrich. So, how the hell did an AIDS virus that was um made in the laboratory in Fort Dietrich find its way to Southern Africa where it caused havoc? How did the bowler yeah, that was not made in African laboratory? How did it find its way to West Africa, particularly because it was West Africa that it bought it hard? I think it was Sierra Loone, um Nigeria and a couple of other countries. Yeah, this is about 10 years or so ago. Yeah, how did it get to West Africa if there's no sinister agenda behind this? So I'm saying is that it's just showing us that these viruses and other baggical warfare are aimed at Africa. Why? To kill, to cull our population, yeah. And so these scientifics that have come into Africa, right, Kenya in particular, right, is not an accident by design. Because if our women wear these toxic, yeah, moldy scientific, right, during their period, right? And when they put it in on their vagina, that's going to just that's going to that's going to go into the vagina, isn't it? That's going to cause damage to the vagina, damage to the reproductive system. Meaning that they cannot have children. And if you destroy the black woman's ability to have children, what what does that what does that what does that end? What's the result of that? It means that there's no more black race, no more African race, because the black woman, the African women can no longer have children because her vagina and or her reproductive system has been corrupted as a result of wearing moldy, stinking, dirty, toxic centripads. I haven't heard of any moldy toxic centripads in America. Have you? I haven't heard of any stinking toxic moldy centripads in Europe, have you? In Asia, have you? You know, if I'm wrong, let me know. I haven't. So that tells you why that there's a wicked agenda by other people to kill African women in particular by selling, exporting to Africa dirty, stinking, moldy, toxic central pads that our women wear. And I want and I'm warning our women, right? Beware. Because this thing in Kenya, it just is about Kenya. You what pads are you wearing in Ghana? What pads are you wearing in Nigeria? What pads is coming through to Gambia, Sierra Leone, Algeria, Morocco, you know, uh Burundi, all of the content. We need to wake up, women. Our women need to wake up now. And I said this before: wake up and realize that you, we are at war. As a people, as African people, we are at war. War has raged amongst us in many means. Food, you know, biological warfare, like ADOLA, you know, uh military warfare as what's going on in DL Congo and uh Sudan, where there's a genocide in Sudan. Yeah. And public health welfare in terms of vaccinations, and now this thing about scientific pads. We are at war. So I'm imploring every single African woman on the continent, listen to this podcast. Yeah, share this podcast with your with your girlfriends, with your nieces, with your daughters, etc. Right, because these scientific is a killer. That has serious implications, not just for Kenya, but the whole African continent. So I'm telling our women, look, examine next time you go and buy some scientific pads, examine the quality. Yeah, take it to a you know a chemist, yeah. Take it to, you know, um the science department of the university in your country. Yeah, like in Ghana, we've got K-U-N S T or we've got Legon Tech. So we've got you know, so Legon in the crowd, or Cape Coast University, or wherever you live. Take it to the science department of that university and let them test the nature of the central pad that you just bought. Do not live the chance, because if you do, you could be buying a moldy, stinking, toxic petrolatum laced um centripad. And by the way, that's also negative as well, because these centripads should be made with 100% cotton, not petrolatum. Yeah, and we're not putting it on the label. So I'm urging all our women to get these pads tested by a science department in any university near your town or city. Yeah, because these people are not playing with this. Population control is the name of the game. Whether you're aware of it or not, whether you like it or not, whether you accept it or not, that is the agenda. Population control, particularly most African people, because the powers that be, the globalists, the elite, they know that by 2050, that's less than 20 years' time, or about 20 years' time, one in four people around the world will be Africans, yeah, and one in three young people, yeah, will be African people. So they don't want that. They view African people as unworthy. We are not worthy to walk this planet. Yeah? So if they have an agenda to kill as many African people as they can. Look at COVID, you know, look how many black people died in the UK, in America, in you know, in South Africa, you know, across the continent. How many people died in during COVID? And as well as taking the vaccine. How many people do you know that have taken a vaccine and have never been the same again? They're either dead or they've got muscle problems, joint problems, um, cyst, blood clots, etc. As a result of taking that COVID-19 vaccine. And so when it comes to public health, we cannot leave anything to chance. Yeah, so I'm warning our women. Next time you go and buy a century pad, make sure you get that pad tested. Whether it's any of the brands, always, you know, who have you. Go and get it tested. Because you can't put your you can't play wishing roulette with a life. But the good news is, the good news is that there's a natural, I keep on talking about natural remedies. There's a natural way, yeah, that you don't need to buy these um these uh scientific that are important or important and coming from Europe and America. But before I get to that point, yeah, Kenya's scientist crisis, like I said, is not a national issue, it's a continental signal flare, and it calls for stronger regulation by our bodies, local innovation I'm gonna come up to in a minute, and a renewed commitment to menstrual dignity for all African women. Yeah, so our our governments need to be on the ball, and the health regulators and policymakers also need to be on the ball in this. So, let me tell you the solution. The solution is we make our own scientific pads. We have got some good news on this, right? So, innovators in Ghana. Yeah, so some companies in Ghana are innovators in creating biodegradable scientific pads using banana and plantain waste. Check it now. They're using banana and plantain skin. That's that's the waste you're talking about, but the skin of the banana, the skin of the plantain to make biodegradable sandropads that women can wear. Now, this groundbreaking work is helping tackle period poverty while promoting sustainability and local empowerment. Yeah, so rather than rely on these on these westernized sandropads that are filling the African market, you know, these wicked companies who are putting toxic chemicals, not cotton, in the sandpads. Yeah, we've got an alternative. And who you you may be wondering is behind this innovation. I will leave their details again in the show. And if you're a woman, maybe you can go on it for yourself and research for yourself. So who's behind this innovation? They're called Kudu Technology, spelled K-O-D-U Technology, and this is a social um impact startup based in Tamale, in northern Ghana. It produces biodegradable sandpads made from banana peel and plantain peels. So the aim of this is to combat period poverty, particularly amongst the rural community, and reduce school advertising amongst girls. Because in Ghana, like other parts of the continent, some young children are not going to school because they don't have the right sanitary wear to take with them while they're on their period in school. Now, this innovative uh company in Ghana has set up menstrual PUD banks at senior high schools to provide free access. Those are something called the PLD project, PLAD project. Now, this has been developed by students from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi. Now check this right, they convert plantain, you know, the you know, the um the skin into sustainable menstrual products. Yeah, and this and this was and this was presented at the Prototypes for Humanity 2023 event in Dubai, right? And it focuses on replacing synthetic, non-biogradable materials, i.e., the materials that always and other you know um household name brands are made with, they replace that with natural, locally sourced fibers. Yeah. So why does this matter? So why is this you know, innovation in using banana and plantain skin to make central pads? Why does it matter? One, like I keep on saying, it's about sovereignty, yeah. So we don't have to rely on anyone else to make central pads for us that could be poisonous to us, particularly to our women. So we will have sovereignty by using this um scheme by the code of technology, i.e., the um central pads made from banana and plantain skin. Yeah, that gives us sovereignty over the jurisdiction of making these things and making it with the natural uh ingredients for our women's purposes. Again, environmental impact. These pads are biodegradable, unlike the non-diet biodegradable ones that you're buying. Yeah, it reduces plastic and also waste from conventional products. Affordability. Now, you know, because you know, people throw away banana skin and plantain skin, right? It makes these naturally made pads affordable, yeah, and cheap, making these pads more accessible, particularly to rural communities where the um income is not as high or consumerate as we'll find in the cities. Also, these natural made centuries pads use health and dignity. So girls, particularly in rural areas of Africa, often lack access to safe menstrual products. These innovations of plantain and banana skin made centropads help them stay in school and maintain hygiene. Again, local empowerments. Yeah, so these projects that I've mentioned above, they create jobs within our people, for our people, by our people, and promote community solutions to menstrual health rather than getting, you know, you know, the World Health Organization or United Nations or some NGO to come and talk about women's menstrual health when we have the solutions at hand ourselves. And so these guide innovators are inspiring models for sustainable menstrual health across Africa, yeah, and we can give you also other you know similar projects that are going on around the continent. And so, in closing, this video that went viral showing you moldy toxic sandpads should be a wake-up call to all African women, yeah, and particularly all African people to stop importing without checking these nasty, stinking dead centuries pads that is causing damage to our women's rebuilt system. Yeah. Two, this is a wake-up call. First, to to examine these things that are coming into our countries. Three, our health facilitators, ministers of health and governments need to be on the board and circumspect and not allowed to come into the country. But more importantly, four, we have the home bread African solutions that is being spread in Ghana by using natural ingredients, i.e., plantain and banana skin, to make biodegradable, health efficient, and safe women's centropads. Alright, so hope you've enjoyed this special looking about the uh the scandal involving uh always and other commercial western imported centropods into Africa. Um in next week's show, we'll be starting a new series looking looking looking about um uh black life in UK. We're calling we're calling this section black UK. And in next week's show, we're gonna tell you why, if you as an African living in the UK, why it may the time may have come not to send money back home. Yeah, it's very controversial topic, but I think the time has come that you may want to stop sending money back home to your family in Africa. All right, so for myself, Kwame, and from all the crew here on Africa in Focus, is thank you very much for listening. And we'll see you next week for some more Ghana Africa in Focus.