BY SHARON NAMAROME: It's a shame that teen mother's are routinely perceived as having physical, social, psychological, mental, emotional and being poor parents...
BY DANIEL ODEKE: During the holidays, it is assumed that teenagers have more idle time and are more likely to engage in risky behaviours, such as unprotected sex...
BY LUCY JOBITA Last month, the Ministry of Health (MoH) launched a guidebook dubbed, ‘Understanding Adolescence’ to assist parents and teachers in the country in dealing with diverse teen issues.…
BY CALVINCE ORWA Migori County has a high prevalence of adolescent pregnancy at 20.8% as of 2020, and low access to and use of adolescent and youth sexual reproductive health…
By DORIS KATHIA Today, worldwide, there are about 1.8 billion young people between the ages of 10 and 24. In 2014, 61% of its 45 million people were under 25…
BY STEPHEN OPIYO Unless Kenya becomes less conservative with reproductive health information, teenage pregnancy remains one of the biggest challenges that young people face in Kenya, with a disproportionately negative…
BY CALVINCE ORWA Adolescent girls are among the most marginalized and at-risk populations when outbreaks and emergencies such as COVID-19 occur. Evidence from earlier crises shows that epidemics and other…
By ELIJAH MAGAIWA A teenage girl from my village in Kuria, Migori County, gave birth two weeks before sitting for the recently concluded KCSE exams. Her unplanned pregnancy during the…
BY TITUS ADIKA Since the emergence of the novel Coronavirus over a year ago, we have seen a significant increase in the number of teen pregnancies being recorded in the…
BY JAMES ONYANGO Teenage pregnancies in Migori County continue to erase the educational achievements and sabotage the economic potential of most of our young vibrant generation. This has seen many…