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Growing up in a Maasai community, Ezekiel Lesiau, now 25, says conversations about sexual and reproductive health were largely absent from his childhood. Like many boys raised in traditional settings, he learnt about cultural expectations, marriage and family responsibilities long before he understood contraception, HIV/AIDs prevention or reproductive health rights.
It was only after joining college that Lesiau began to understand that he could make choices about his relationships or reproductive health.
“When growing up, we never knew anything outside our traditions, such as getting married at a young age to a girl chosen by our fathers. But when I went to college, I learnt that I could actually choose my own woman. I learnt about my sexual and reproductive health and the choices I could make,” he says.
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