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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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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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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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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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President Kenyatta orders probe on Gender-Based Violence, teenage pregnancies
By Ian Omondi,
1434, July 6, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta has expressed concern and sounded the alarm on rising cases of Gender-Based Violence and instances of teenage pregnancy. T...
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Uhuru on teenage pregnancies: There will be hell to pay for chiefs, perpetrators
By Tonny Ndungu,
1443, July 3, 2020 (EAT)
President Uhuru Kenyatta now says there will be hell to pay for those who have impregnated minors across the country. President Kenyatta was speaki...
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CS Mucheru: Kenyan parents struggling to control online content for children
By Citizen Reporter,
1800, June 21, 2020 (EAT)
ICT Cabinet Secretary Joe Mucheru has decried increasing cases of children accessing inappropriate content following the closure of schools over the C...
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CS Magoha wants pornography banned in Kenya to curb teenage pregnancies
By Benjamin Muriuki,
1618, June 18, 2020 (EAT)
Education Cabinet Secretary Prof. George Magoha wants pornographic sites banned in the country, saying they are to blame for the high rate of teenage ...
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Two bodies retrieved from the Nairobi river during clean-up exercise
By Citizen Reporter,
1035, June 11, 2020 (EAT)
The Comb Green clean-up team working under Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has retrieved two more bodies from the Nairobi river. The bodies of infants ...
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OPINION: Reproductive health in a man’s world
By Guest Writer,
1524, May 5, 2020 (EAT)
I do digital storytelling and new media social justice campaigns. Two years ago, the African Women’s Development and Communication Network (Femne...
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Teenage girls in public primary schools to get sanitary towels from Class 6
By George Amolo,
833, March 13, 2020 (EAT)
The Government through the Education Ministry has embarked on a program to distribute sanitary towels to teenage girls in all public primary schools c...
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