A file photo of Busia town. [PHOTO/the-star.co.ke]
Busia has emerged the county with the highest number of teen pregnancies.
This has been attributed to lack of accurate sexuality among the school children aged 10-19 years.
According to a study by the African Population and Health Research Center, 42 per cent of teenage boys and 15 per cent of girls in the same bracket have had sex.
The study data was collected from 78 schools in Busia, Nairobi, Homa Bay, and Mombasa.
It revealed that 10 per cent of adolescent school children are mothers and that by the age of 19, half of girls in schools are usually sexually active.
About 40 per cent of them are married while about 20 per cent have children.
Busia Reproductive Health officer Belinda Munyiri on Monday said that comprehensive and age appropriate sexuality education in schools must be used to solve the challenge of teenage pregnancy.
She was speaking to the press at a meeting on how to lower the high rate of pregnancy among adolescent children.