The trending debate on whether to give or not to give contraceptives to school-going children to cushion them against rampant and carefree sexual exploits is neither here nor there. As the debate rages on, it is emerging that there is need for the children to be integrated and given a comprehensive sexuality education that will make them be part of the solution rather than being seen as adults coming together against the young to control their sexuality. Integrated sexuality education as well as comprehensive sexuality knowledge that includes moral, religious and holistic aspect of sexuality is a necessity because there is level of ignorance on sexuality and matters pertaining to condom use in our society. Despite the many advertisement on Television,Radio and Newspaper on condom use, its use during sexual intercourse is very minimal. As i wake every day in the streets of Kisumu and its neighborhood i meet young adolescent kids carrying infants in their wombs.Various cases of teacher pupil love relationships have been reported in the county. It is true that teachers are always on the wrong when such cases come up but do the students report the incidences? probably no.The information will only come out when the young lady finds herself pregnant or rather when they are found red-handed. It is obvious that mass media is a predominant source of sexuality message family members and schools have a share in the spread of sexual related information while the church is expected to be on the forefront in instilling good morals to its member’s offers very little on the same. In the world of today family and parental supervision, guidance and counseling on sexual matters have become quite minuscule,while the society has to contend with the entrance of ill-advised and ignorant peers who misadvise each other on sexuality matters. This is aggravated by a sexualized mass media.Ignorance and fallacious sexuality knowledge that has become the adolescents’ Achilles heel upon which their sexuality can be explained. A report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) 2013, State of the World Population Report, states that East Africa has been rated second globally after West Africa as the region with the highest number of women reporting a birth before the age of 18. The Report titled, “Motherhood in Childhood”, notes that at least five per cent of young women below the age of 18 in East Africa are already mothers while four per cent of girls below the age of 15 have children. A Reproductive Health Care Bill tabled the Senate by nominated Senator Judith Sijeny has sought to make it possible for school children to access to contraceptives. The Bill, if passed, will be the first legislation in the country to recognize that children as young as ten are sexually active and, therefore, need to get access to comprehensive reproductive health services and products without the consent of their parents but the big question is will that solve sexual thirst among the adolescents?

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