Reproductive activists have launched a campaign recently and want any existing legal or informal barriers that prevent women from accesing affordable sexual health care removed.
The campaign was launched last week in NAirobi by Grace MAingi Kimani of Coalition on Violence Against Women-KEnya (COVAW).
A report by The KEnya MEdiacl Association, KEnyan chapter of the Federation of Women LAwyers (FIDA-K), Ministry of HEalth and International Projects Assistacne Services (IPAS), a United states based organisation that lobbies for women's reproductive rights indicates that about 300,000 abortions are performed in the country each year, causing 20,000 women and girls to be hospitalised with related complications.
This translates to daily abortion rate of about 800 procedures and the death of 2,600 women every year.
Attempts by activitsts to legalise abortion as a contraceptive measure have always faced restistance in the country.
Pro-life organisations claim that preventing unwanted pregnancies is a better way of reducing these deaths, Chairman of the Protecting Life Movement of KEnya JEan KAggi said.
She said advocating for utilisation of family planning facilities and making sure they are accessible to every woman or girl who is sexually active.
Purie 4 Kenya A tale of love between a lioness and a lamb. This tale is recounted over and over again in the evenings around fires in the manyattas of the Samburu people. Kenya post office produced a stamp in memory of this event. January 7, 2002 Samburu National Reserve, a lioness adopted a young oryx baby, lay next to it and licked it. People who heard this found it impossible to believe. Stories were published; tourists and game rangers photographed the strange phenomenon.
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