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Defilement, early pregnancy, HIV: The triple threat facing teenage girls

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Susan Otieno (centre) at Yala dispensary during a counselling session with teenage mothers living with HIV. [Michael Mute, Standard]

Grace* was 16 years old when she got into a sexual relationship with a man who she ended up living with.

She had just dropped out of school in Form Two because her parents could not afford to pay school fees.

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