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Red flag as more Kenyan youths ‘too trusting to use condoms’

More adolescents are having sex and worrying about unwanted pregnancy forgetting HIV (Photo: Courtesy)

I have never used a condom. I was told that pleasure is not the same. So I always tell the person I am with that I am allergic to latex, says a 17-year-old boy who started having sex at 14 years old.

The rise of HIV infections among adolescents is slowly getting out of hand as stakeholders try to find better ways to address the problem.

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