Nairobi, April 18 -- A recent report by Radio Baraza shows that over 65,000 teenage pregnancies have been recorded in Busia County in the last eight years. This translates into about 8,000 cases every year. Victims were as young as 10 years of age. The immediate consequences were pregnancy, early marriage and permanent discontinuation of formal education. Compounding factors were poverty, stigma and deficient information about sexual and reproductive health.

The 2024 study, Teenage Pregnancy and its Associated Factors in Kenya: A Multilevel Logistic Regression Analysis Based on the Recent 2022 Kenyan Demographic and Health Survey, brings out some useful insights into this phenomenon. It highlights that Kenya's adolescent birth rates are ...