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Amina now orders audit of teenage pregnancy crisis

A student sits a KCSE paper at Makueni Level 4 Hospital, in Makueni County, yesterday. [Stephen Nzioka, Standard]

Analysis of available data reveals alarming statistics that may have put your girl-child under siege, even as Education Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohammed ordered an audit of all pregnant girls in school.

It is now emerging that the country could be staring at a bigger problem, with Government data putting the county with highest pregnancy prevalence rate at 40 per cent.

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