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Silent struggle as women shift from traditional to modern family planning

Florence Nakhumicha is a traditional birth attendant and herbalist. [File, Standard]

Long before the coming of contraceptive pills, injections, and intrauterine devices, African communities were not strangers to family planning.

In Bungoma County, traditional practices such as the placenta ritual played a crucial role in birth control long before the emergence of modern contraceptives.

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