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Kenyans embracing contraceptives, multiple partner relationships

The number of men resorting to permanent family planning methods more than doubled last year while the number of teenage pregnancies continued to decrease.

According to data from the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, 4,107 women underwent sterilisation bilateral tubal litigation while 557 men underwent sterilisation vasectomy.

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