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From abortions to #condommania: Kenyan students get real about sex

Desperate female students used to knock on Catherine Tweni's door almost every day, needing emergency treatment for self-administered abortions.

Tweni, a nurse at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT), 35 km (22 miles) from Kenya's capital, Nairobi, often had to rush them to the operating theatre.

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