Latest Adolescent Health News
Clicks before clinics: Why more people are replacing doctors with search engines, social media
New research across all 47 counties shows social media is reshaping how…
Puffing trouble: Bhang smoking fuels risk of psychotic disorders, depression, anxiety among teens
One million Kenyans began smoking bhang, with users rising by 90 per…
Night Shift Crisis: When Kenya’s youth need help most, the health system is asleep
Fifteen years of data now show that for Kenya's youth, the greatest…
Hidden pregnancies: Alone at 14, giving birth in the bush, surrounded by dogs at night
A teenage mother is a child carrying a child in a body…
Adolescent antenatal care: Where Kenya’s youngest mothers are under 14 years
Kenya recorded 235,938 adolescent pregnancies in 2025. Behind that number are girls…
Finance Bill 2026 targets tobacco taxes as WHO warns of rising youth nicotine addiction
Nicotine is highly addictive and particularly harmful to children and adolescents, with…
Desks Before Diapers: How education cuts early pregnancies, HIV infection in girls
The real cost of early pregnancy, HIV and gender-based violence among young people in East Africa…
The Boys No One Talks To: Rethinking teen pregnancy in Kenya
Across Kenya, youth-led programmes are doing what policies and conferences cannot, building the trust…
From classroom to clinic: Why 240,000 annual teen pregnancies don’t alarm Kenyans
Kenya's adolescents are navigating sex, power, and violence with almost no honest…
