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JKUAT students develop app set to revolutionise sexual reproductive health

The students are following in the footsteps of a young Ugandan lady, Ruth Nabembezi in trying to change the conversation around sex and reproductive health as a topic.

Unlike Ruth’s Ask Without Shame application which focuses mostly on the girl child; Irvin Amukasa, Derick Mureithi, Rashid Beduni, Nicholas Wambua, John Nzau Makau and Beverly Mutindi have created SophieBot which allows access to sexual health information to both the young and the old, irrespective of gender.

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