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Official raises alarm on number of teen mothers

Kilifi County Health Executive Anisa Omar.

About 17,000 teenage pregnancies were reported in Kilifi county last year, Health executive Anisa Omar has revealed.

She said five per cent of all teenagers who became pregnant also contracted HIV/Aids.

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