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      Initiated by the German-based NGO WASH United in 2014, Menstrual Hygiene Day (MH Day) is observed on May 28, with the aim of breaking the misconceptions about menstruation and highlighting the importance of good menstrual hygiene management. Roughly 300 million women in India lack access to safe sanitary products, but one social entrepreneur in India, Arunachalam Muruganantham, has been devoted to changing that.
      It all began in 1998, when Arunachalam Muruganantham was shocked to discover that his newly-married wife was using old rags to deal with menstruation because she couldn’t afford sanitary pads and that less than 10% of the women in the surrounding villages used sanitary pads. Thus, the thought of making affordable napkins began to take solid shape in his mind.
      Finding volunteers to test his products was no mean feat, so he decided to test the products himself. Muruganantham used a football bladder filled with goat’s blood and let it flow into a sanitary pad he wore on himself. He became an object of ridicule and everyone thought he had gone mad. After trying various methods, Muruganantham successfully discovered the right material and devised an easy-to-use machine that can manufacture sanitary pads for less than a third of the cost of commercial pads.
       Instead of accepting offers from several corporations to commercialize his machine, Muruganantham sold his machine directly to women’s self-help groups. Now women’s groups can produce their own sanitary pads and sell the surplus. In an interview, Muruganantham said he received a call from a mother from a women’s self-help group telling him that her little girl was going to school. It was the first time a woman had earned enough money to give her daughter an education in the history of that village. This, Muruganantham said, was his greatest compliment.
      By now, Muruganantham has sold over 1,300 machines in India and in other developing countries as well. In 2014, Muruganantham was named in TIME Magazine’s list of 100 most influential people.
【題組】41.Which of the following titles best describes the main idea of this passage?
(A) Menstrual Hygiene Day
(B) “Pad Man” in India
(C) Safe Sanitary Products
(D) How to Make Affordable Napkins