MASVINGO – Zimbabwean youths have called for expanded access to sexual and reproductive health services, including safe abortion services, free sanitary pads, emergency contraceptives and condoms, arguing that high costs and limited access contribute to unsafe abortions, teenage pregnancies and cases of baby abandonment.

There is a generation in Zimbabwe’s economy and governance crisis that has never experienced a fully functional system. For them, inefficiency in Zimbabwe is not an interruption, it is the baseline.