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What you need to know about the emergency pill

Emergency pills should only be taken three times a year (Photo: Courtesy)

Grace Wambua, a mother of two, only remembered she had not taken the emergency pill several days after engaging in unprotected sex.

“Nobody told me how it is supposed to be used,” says the 28-year-old kindergarten teacher in Tala, Machakos County. “I was naive and had just joined college. I was advised by my friend to buy it after confiding what had happened.”

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