Taiwan has written free menstrual products into law for schools, a win for students and gender-equality campaigners.

• Lawmakers amended the School Health Act to make education officials help schools stock free period products.
• Schools must also teach menstrual health, nutrition, and mental health.
• The goal is to end period poverty, where students can't afford basic supplies.
• An existing Education Ministry program had been applied unevenly, so lawmakers put it into law to force consistency.
• The same amendment bans e-cigarettes and other new tobacco products from all primary and secondary schools.

Outlook: Schools will need to roll out supplies and new health classes under the stricter legal requirement.