A study conducted by the Guttmacher and African Population and Health Research Center in Kenya has revealed that teenagers in that country prefer to have unadulterated lessons on how to use contraceptives.
In all 2,484 teenagers were interviewed for the study, titled From Paper to Practice: Sexuality Education Policies and Their Implementation in Kenya.
The teenagers preferred to have lessons on how best to use condoms, oral pills among others as part of sex education lessons in their schools.
According to the Daily Nation, the respondents wanted to know more about HIV/Aids, reproductive health, puberty and the resulting physical changes in the body, abstinence, and sexually transmitted diseases.
The study also showed that because these teenagers were already sexually active, they desired to know where to get these contraceptives in order to protect themselves against sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies.
Daily Nation reported that only two out of every 10 interviewed said they knew anything about contraceptive methods; only one out of 10 said they knew how to use contraceptives, and less than two out of 10 said they knew where to find them.
Young Kenyans between the ages of 15 and 17 were interviewed for this study.
Source: Africafeeds.com
