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City sex report reveals girls as young as 15 have had sex, are using contraceptives

One in every three adolescent girls and young women in Nairobi County has had her first sexual encounter by the age of 18 years.

This represents a whopping 33 per cent of the overall population of women in the city, according to the latest statistics by the Performance Monitoring Action (PMA) report, released last week by the International Centre for Reproductive Health (ICRH).

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