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Girls as young as 13 hooked on family planning options

A teenager holding contraceptives after taking recommended dose. In Kwale County, young girls are already using contraceptives. FILE PHOTO

By  MERCY JUMA OKANDE

What you need to know:

  • And, as Kenya marks the World Contraception Day today, the policies and guidelines under debate will strike a sensitive cord in her heart.
  • One in four Kenyan women aged between 25 and 49 have given birth by age 18, while one in two have given birth by 20.

High above the routine, commonplace slog of Waa village in Kwale, a dense formation of coastal clouds drifts lazily across the sky.

Below it, a gentle gust of wind swishes a woman’s long turquoise blue skirt up her bent back.

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