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    "id": 1341226,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1341226/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr Susan Nakhumicha",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Health",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker and Members, the Ministry has made significant efforts in reduction of teenage pregnancies, as evidenced in the recent Kenya Demographic Health Survey of 2022 from 18 per cent in 2014 to 15 per cent in 2022. That is not good enough. We are working on it. The report is being reviewed with counties and strategies tailored to be county-specific, focusing on counties that have the highest burden of teenage pregnancies. Samburu County has the highest at 50 per cent. Nyeri County has the lowest at 5 per cent. The Ministry continues to monitor these indicators through the Kenya Health Information System. We have reporting tools to ensure that we monitor. The Ministry is finalising the development of Adolescents and Young Person’s Reproductive Health Policy, 2023, which will address the various facets of adolescence and reproductive health including teenage pregnancies and age-appropriate culturally sensitive reproductive health information and sexuality. Its launch was planned for the month of September but it did not happen. It is in the plan. As part of the implementation to increase awareness of age-appropriate information amongst adolescents, last year, the ministry developed and launched a guide titled: Understanding Adolescence, A Guide for Adolescents. Its dissemination is ongoing in the counties through the schools and the communities. The guide, which is also available in braille, can be accessed online with plans to provide print versions as well."
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