Thursday, July 03, 2025
By Mishi Gongo

When 13-year-old Santa* from Maweni in Mombasa discovered she was pregnant, her world froze. Her first thought wasn’t about motherhood—it was shame.

She says she had failed to protect herself simply because she did not know she could. "I didn’t know where to go. I was afraid to ask," she recalls.

Misinformed about contraception, she took the emergency morning-after pill before being sexually active, believing it would protect her. By the time her stomach began to swell, it was too late.

Continued: https://nation.africa/kenya/health/mother-at-14-the-urgent-need-for-contraceptive-knowledge-to-curb-teen-pregnancies-unsafe-abortions-5103510#google_vignette