Kenya, along with the rest of the world is currently responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight DSW Youth Champions will be using their voices this year to make sure the EU’s external action effectively responds to young people’s needs, particularly in the field of global health and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

In the last one month, Kenyans have been treated to a heated debate on reproductive health triggered by the second reading of the reproductive healthcare bill at the senate.

The drugs in question were phased out in 2019 due to their adverse effects on patients.

Since the pandemic began, many youth who are HIV-positive have been shying away from going to health facilities to get their antiretroviral drugs for fear of being tested for Covid-19.