Grace Wambua, now a mother of two, only remembered she had not taken the emergency pill several days after engaging in unprotected sex.
“Nobody told me how it is supposed to be used,” says the 28-year-old kindergarten teacher in Tala, Machakos County. “I was naive and had just joined college. I was advised by my friend to buy it after confiding what had happened.”
Her first son was the result of the failed emergency contraceptive but she does not regret the unplanned pregnancy but she wishes pharmacists advised the young girls buying P2 over the counter.
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