Home Healthy living Women's health Girls and young women (puberty to around 25) Periods and menstrual health Periods (menstruation) videos
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A period is the part of the menstrual cycle when women, girls and people who menstruate bleed from their vagina.
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Last updated: 15 June 2023
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