Kenya national government aims at attaining a modern contraceptive prevalence rate (mCPR) of 58% by 2020; 66% by 2030 and 70% by 2050 among married women through increased investment on family planning in Kenya.
According to KDHS, as at 2014 Kenya had achieved a mCPR of 53 percent. This was as a result of increased advocacy for family planning and increased investment in procurement of contraceptives as part of the strategy of proper family planning in Kenya.
Kenya has in the past experienced stockouts of family planning commodities. For instance, a total of Ksh. 120 million was allocated for family planning in FY 2016/2017. This amount was spent on procuring 4.8 million contraceptive pills. In 2017/2018, the state did not allocate any resource for family planning commodities.
The burden of supplying contraceptives is now left to development partners to finance. The national treasury also reports that there are challenges in serving the under-served populations such as the youth and adolescents with contraceptives.
Globally, adolescents face a number of problems such as early and unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortion, female genital mutilation (FGM), sexual violence, child marriages, sexually transmitted diseases and malnutrition among other challenges.
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