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OPINION: Why we must handle teen pregnancy as a gender justice issue
By Guest Writer,
1135, January 9, 2021 (EAT)
By Ngare Kariuki It is a gross injustice that many girls will not report back to school because they got pregnant during the COVID-19 lockdown. ...
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OPINION: Sex education the perfect pill to cure rampant teen pregnancies
By Guest Writer,
1543, January 5, 2021 (EAT)
By Serah Kamau As learners troop back to school after a nine-month break thanks to the Covid-19 outbreak, hundreds of girls will remain at home bec...
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UNDP, CRAWN Trust push for increased access to maternal, child health services
By Rachel Ombaka,
1632, December 16, 2020 (EAT)
Lack of access to maternal, child health services as well as poor provider attitudes have largely contributed to maternal deaths in Nairobi. Also Rea...
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Police hunt for Kirinyaga church elder who impregnated his two daughters
By Hassan Mugambi,
1103, December 14, 2020 (EAT)
Police officers in Kirinyaga County are searching for a man suspected of defiling and impregnating his two daughters. The man - a church elder from...
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President Kenyatta orders all schools reopen in January 2021
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1520, December 12, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has directed that all schools reopen in January 2021 as the country continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The Head of...
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Singaporean gives birth to baby with COVID-19 antibodies: report
By Reuters,
1124, November 29, 2020 (EAT)
A Singaporean woman, who was infected with the novel coronavirus in March when she was pregnant, has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the...
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Action urged on teenage pregnancy and HIV as new report reveals high rates in Homa Bay
By Citizen Reporter,
1116, November 27, 2020 (EAT)
Gender inequality, difficulties in accessing services and poverty are fuelling high rates of unintended pregnancies and HIV in Homa Bay, Western Kenya...
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Teenage pregnancies rise in parts of Kenya as lockdown shuts schools
By Reuters,
1409, November 16, 2020 (EAT)
Jackline Bosibori wept when she found out she was pregnant. Also Read: Baringo teens trading sex for money to buy sanitary towels The 17-year-...
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Buying a baby on Nairobi’s black market
By Guest Writer,
936, November 16, 2020 (EAT)
By Peter Murimi, Joel Gunter and Tom Watson Babies are being stolen to order in Kenya to feed a thriving black market. Africa Eye infiltrated the...
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OPINION: With COVID-19 comes an opportunity to build resilience in maternal health
By Guest Writer,
1832, November 9, 2020 (EAT)
By Dr. Steve Adudans Recently, a pregnant woman was captured on camera delivering at the gate of a health facility after allegedly being turned a...
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Pregnant women with COVID-19 face higher risk of severe illness and death, study says
By CNN,
930, November 3, 2020 (EAT)
Pregnant women infected with the coronavirus are more likely to become severely ill and die from Covid-19, and they're at increased risk for premature...
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Zimbabweans turn to sex work amid economic crisis and COVID
By Reuters,
1149, October 29, 2020 (EAT)
Dressed in a miniskirt and blouse, Esther Kamupunga stood in semi-darkness waiting for men looking for sex - the latest Zimbabwean to lose her job in ...
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‘Schools may reopen earlier than January 2021 with declining COVID-19 cases,’ says CS Magoha
By George Juma,
1339, August 25, 2020 (EAT)
The government is ready and willing to change school reopening dates anytime depending on the behavior of the COVID-19 pandemic, Education Cabinet Sec...
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Futures destroyed: COVID-19 unleashes ‘shadow pandemics’ on Africa’s girls
By Reuters,
1629, August 21, 2020 (EAT)
Until the new coronavirus hit Kenya in March, 17-year-old schoolgirl Anna believed the world was hers for the taking. It didn’t matter that she l...
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Woman buries 1-day-old baby alive after domestic fight
By Aly Abich,
1042, August 18, 2020 (EAT)
A woman buried her 1-day-old baby alive in Rachuonyo East sub-county claiming she had been threatened by her husband during a domestic fight. Alt...
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Man seeks justice after daughter among 4 minors forcibly put on contraceptives
By Citizen Reporter,
1347, August 15, 2020 (EAT)
A family in Kakamega County wants action taken against a local health facility and some of its doctors after their teenage daughter was duped and give...
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24-year-old arrested for stabbing husband to death in Roysambu
By Nganga Njoroge,
1431, August 10, 2020 (EAT)
A 24-year-old was on Sunday evening arrested over the suspicion that she stabbed her husband to death on Sunday night in Marurui, Roysambu in a family...
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Michelle Obama and Melinda Gates: We can’t ignore adolescent girls in Covid-19 response
By CNN,
1109, August 8, 2020 (EAT)
Today should have been a school day for 15-year-old Fortunate Ayomirwoth. But for the past five months, her school has been closed. Fortunate now s...
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Marian Awuor Adumbo, nurse who succumbed to COVID-19, buried in Homa Bay
By Aly Abich,
1240, August 8, 2020 (EAT)
Nurse Marian Awuor Adumbo, who died from COVID-19 complications slightly over a week after giving birth, has been buried. The deceased was laid to ...
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Homa Bay nurse dies of COVID-19 complications a week after giving birth
By Ian Omondi,
1210, August 7, 2020 (EAT)
Marian Awuor Adumbo, a nurse working at the Rachuonyo sub-county Hospital in Homa Bay, has died from COVID-19 complications at a Kisii health facility...
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