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Low condom use fuels HIV, STI, unplanned pregnancies
It is difficult for us as women to negotiate for condoms to be used during sexual intercourse. This is because sex is about sensations and most men love to ‘hit it raw’ to experience its full range of pleasurable sensations.…
Message from the Executive Director: 16 Days of Activism Against GBV
The Woman’s Newsroom Foundation joins the world in the campaign to end all forms of violence against women-which kicks off today, November 25-The International Day for the Elimination of Violence…
Spare a thought for rural woman burdened by unpaid care, chores
When Covid-19 struck, the government moved fast to impose containment measures, including movement restrictions. Those hit the hardest, especially by the partial lockdown, were obviously residents of cities, particularly Nairobi.…
16 Days of Activism: Let’s address violence against elderly women
Last month’s ghastly murder of four older women in broad daylight by bloodthirsty, savage, ferocious and cruel individuals in a village at Marani Ward of Kisii County should prick our collective moral…
With femicide, cost of gender-based violence now too high, is ‘epidemic’
The horror of gender-based violence (GBV) in the country was literally thrown into the faces of Kenyans last week with the shocking news of the brutal killing of a young…