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OPINION: Crisis pregnancy centres not the solution for rape survivors
By Guest Writer,
702, February 18, 2021 (EAT)
The emergence of crisis pregnancy centres in Kenya is a problematic solution to survivors of sexual violence who are pregnant as a result of rape or e...
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OPINION: Sanitary pads will encourage girls to stay in school
By Guest Writer,
1100, February 6, 2021 (EAT)
By Alvin Mwangi According to the World Bank, At least 500 million women and girls globally lack adequate facilities for menstrual hygiene managemen...
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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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Politicians and village tournaments: Value addition or publicity stunt?
By Francis Onguko,
1440, December 21, 2020 (EAT)
At the turn of every Christmas season, politicians, in their characteristics style, have formed a penchant of retreating to the constituencies to orga...
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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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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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Activists demand Kenya’s withdrawal from Geneva Consensus Declaration over women’s human rights
By Citizen Reporter,
1510, November 12, 2020 (EAT)
21 Kenyan civil society groups have petitioned the Government of Kenya to withdraw from the Geneva Consensus Declaration (GCD). According to them, ...
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OPINION: Speak out your agony
By Sponsored,
1546, September 30, 2020 (EAT)
By Angelina Cikanda "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last," excerpts from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming." This ...
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OPINION: The right to live free from violence is a basic human right even as we battle COVID-19
By Guest Writer,
1051, August 28, 2020 (EAT)
The right to live free from violence, to be inseparable from your right and need to keep your body to yourself, to walk unscathed from the fists of ag...
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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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Africa Health Officials call for children to return to school
By VOA,
1348, August 21, 2020 (EAT)
Experts from the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund say it's urgent and essential that children across the A...
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Magoha: Lack of sanitary towels not reason for teen pregnancies
By George Amolo,
1233, August 20, 2020 (EAT)
Education CS George Magoha has dismissed claims that teenage pregnancies are on the rise in the country due to lack of sanitary towels. He slammed ...
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857 girls aged between 10 and 19 years impregnated in Nyandarua – report
By Citizen Reporter,
1640, August 19, 2020 (EAT)
857 girls aged between 10 and 19 years were impregnated in Nyandarua between January and June this year, a report by the National council for popula...
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Man, 27, cycles from Busia to Moyale in COVID-19 awareness campaign
By Moses Mwenda,
1841, August 12, 2020 (EAT)
A 27-year-old man began a journey on a bicycle from Moyale township on the Kenya-Ethiopia border heading to Busia on the Kenya-Uganda border. The jou...
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Providing women with contraception could save poor countries billions – researchers
By Reuters,
1104, July 29, 2020 (EAT)
Low- and middle-income countries could save billions of dollars a year in health care costs by investing in making contraception widely available to w...
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Baringo teens trading sex for money to buy sanitary towels
By Citizen Reporter,
1213, July 26, 2020 (EAT)
Poverty and lack of parental responsibility have been cited as the major reasons for a rise in teenage pregnancies especially during this COVID-19 per...
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Two thirds of girls are married before 18th birthday in Homa Bay, Migori, Meru
By Citizen Reporter,
1014, July 12, 2020 (EAT)
Child marriage is the number one driver of teen pregnancies in the country, according to a new report titled the State of Kenya Population 2020. An...
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Push for SRHR policies, legal frameworks to protect the vulnerable amid COVID-19
By Citizen Reporter,
1558, July 10, 2020 (EAT)
Initially, the awareness on women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) was more focused on the distribution of sanitary towels to youn...
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