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Can I Get Pregnant While On My Period?
Fertility & Family Planning

Can I Get Pregnant While On My Period?

Key takeaways:  It’s possible to get pregnant on your period, but only if you have a short cycle. The fertile window is only six days long, and for most people, this won’t coincide with days ...

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Vira Reflects: Who Supported You During Your First Period?
Period Care

Vira Reflects: Who Supported You During Your First Period?

This is the second installment of our monthly photo series, where women reflect on prompts related to our bodies, periods, health, sex, and more.  We asked 5 Thai women who they turned to for help ...

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Can I Have Sex on My Period?
Period Care

Can I Have Sex on My Period?

It’s not something we see often in sex scenes of our favourite TV shows or movies. It’s not even something that we see or talk about when we’re learning about sex education in school. Sex and menst...

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Woman lies in a red swimsuit on a pad in a pool of red blood to represent her period/menstrual cycle. The vibe is calm, serene, and accepting.
Mental Health

What Was Your First Period Like? 10 Thai Women Reflect.

Your first period can bring about many different feelings: excitement, shame, fear, celebration, anger, stress, teary, pain, messiness, newness… and the list goes on.  We often treat one’s period a...

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What’s Really in Your Tampons?
Period Care

What’s Really in Your Tampons?

For the first time ever, researchers published results from a study of different chemicals found in tampons (Berkeley Public Health, 2024) & (Environment International, 2024).  The results are ...

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How You Can Help Reduce Period Poverty in Thailand
Period Care

How You Can Help Reduce Period Poverty in Thailand

Vira has launched a new PERIOD POWER project to empower 1,000 Girls on the Thai-Myanmar Border. Learn more about how you can get involved to reduce Period Poverty.

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Tampons vs Cup vs Discs: How to Pick the Right Product for You
Period Care

Tampons vs Cup vs Discs: How to Pick the Right Product for You

We all have preferences about which products to use during our periods. Pads are to be the most common items in convenience stores in Thailand, and you won't be able to find many other options in t...

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Vira Reflects: What I Wish My Younger Self Knew Before Her First Period: Words of Wisdom
Mental Health

Vira Reflects: What I Wish My Younger Self Knew Before Her First Period: Words of Wisdom

Whatever your experience was with your first period - positive or negative - there are a bunch of things you wish you had known! If you could go back and share some advice for your younger self, wh...

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Purple blue tea brewed in a glass tea pot, butterfly pea flower as one ingredient
Hormone Health

The Healing Powers of Butterfly Pea Flower

Many Thais know of the Dawk An Cham (ดอกอัญชัน) or Butterfly Pea Flower – the soft purple flower that, when combined with lime, magically turns our drinks from blue to purple and pink, or dyes our ...

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Cycle tea Luteal Vira
Fertility & Family Planning

How to Cycle Sync with Vira

Written by Mimi Thompson  What is Cycle Syncing? At Vira, we use the term “Cycle Syncing” a lot. If you’re unaware of the practice, Cycle Syncing is when you adjust your lifestyle and schedule to a...

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difference between spotting and period
Period Care

Difference Between a Period and Spotting

It’s important to be able to identify the difference between a menstrual period and other types of vaginal bleeding. Spotting is any kind of light, irregular bleeding outside of the menstrual cycle. 

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