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'More Mombasa girls in school as pregnancy rates drop'

MOMBASA: The teenage pregnancy rate in the county has dropped to 21 per cent from the 2008-09 Kenya Demographic Health Survey (KDHS) of 26 per cent.

National Council for Population and Development (NCPD) Regional Co-ordinator Margaret Mwaila said the drop is of the 2014 survey.

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