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Kenya: Family Planning Hit Hard By Focus on Covid-19
Nation, 26 September 2020
The focus on containing the spread of coronavirus has hit crucial mother-to-child health care services, including family planning and immunisation, research has shown. Read more »
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Kenya: No Longer Haram - Muslims Change Tack on Family Planning
Nation, 22 September 2020
With 10 mouths to feed, no source of income and nowhere proper to sleep, Fatuma Hamed has many difficulties to contend with. Read more »
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Kenya: Kenyatta Goes After Clinics Giving Contraceptives to Young Girls
Nation, 28 July 2020
President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered county commissioners to carry out a nationwide crackdown on private clinics offering emergency contraceptives to underage girls. Read more »
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Kenya: We Wish We Had Access to Contraceptives, Mau Women
Nation, 28 March 2020
Lily Sigilai arrives home with a pile of firewood on her back. Read more »
A Knock for Kenya's Family Planning as Focus Shifts to Covid-19
The focus on containing the spread of Covid-19 has hit crucial mother-to-child health care services, including family planning and immunisation, research has shown. Half of the pregnancies in the country are unintended. The survey warned that if the shift does not change and interventions on maternal and child care remain unavailable, successes realised are likely to be reversed. It has been found that six out of 10 teenagers got pregnant yet they did not want to have a child at that time while 20 did not want the pregnancy at all. Kenya attained the contraceptives prevalence of 61% in 2019, surpassing the 2020 target of 58%, according to the Ministry of Health.
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Public health officials assisting in the burial of Covid-19 victims, will no longer be required to wear full white hazmat suits as has been the case in the last six months. Family ... Read more »
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Due to ongoing corruption investigations, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission officials took all the records at Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) and stopped payments ... Read more »
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This is after the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority included Tanzania among states and territories whose travellers into the country will be exempt from quarantine. Earlier, ... Read more »
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The names and faces of officials who may have been involved in Covid-19 corruption are being revealed as investigations gather steam. President Uhuru Kenyatta has in the meantime ... Read more »
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About 50% of young people aged above 18 are sexually active and only about 11% are using family planning methods although they desire to use a method to prevent ... Read more »
