Fertility
Once a community has enough food and medicine for its children, when girls complete secondary school and child survival is high – there is less pressure from everyone to breed.
Historical child sexual abuse
When someone asks – ‘Why have you taken twenty years to report this abuse ? The words are spoken in a manner that suggests that the woman is lying - ‘What are you hoping to g
Teenagers and sexual orientation
More good could be done by the psychological and religious communities if they were to band together and help sexual minorities shed their self-hatred and find a respected place in
Anti-HIV treatment – let’s get the facts right.
The national roll out of HIV PrEP by Kenyan Ministry of Health was yesterday. Groups at risk of HIV acquisition are the main target – on the list is young girls. I had a conversa
Let’s talk about childbirth
But while more midwifery research is required, there are small things can be done to make childbirth easier for women. Childbirth need not be undignified.
Kenyan women need more C-sections
The people failed most by the lack of C-sections are babies. In Kenya about 13,600 babies die every year as a result of birth trauma and birth asphyxia - lives that would be saved
Homosexuality
If you have grown up in a nation where homosexuality is a normal part of life, you will not understand where I am coming from. But I write for those of us who have grown up surroun
Date rape reporting for university students
Date rape affects many young women in their twenties, Jessica Ladd says there is a way to stop repeat offenders who make up 90% of date rape assailants.
NYS 1988 – Rape in every conflict
The trauma of the NYS violence when preparing for Moi day 1988 will be remembered by very few - it did not make it to press. Rape as a weapon of conflict continues to flourish unpu