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Report: Average age of Kenyan women's first sexual encounter revealed

Four out of ten adolescents are either embarrassed or too shy to start using family planning (Photo: World Vision International)

Women in rural areas are more exposed to early sex than their urban counterparts, according to a report by the International Centre for Reproductive Health Kenya.

While women in urban areas on average have their first sex at 18 years and two months, those in rural settings start at about 17 and one months. This ties with when women in both areas have their first child: Urban women are around 21 years, nine months, and those in rural areas give birth at 20 years, five months.

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