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Friday, July 11, 2008
July 11 marks World Population Day, an annual event that this year emphasises the rights of individuals and couples to plan their own families. Currently, 500 million women in the developing world are using some form of family planning, thereby preventing 187 million unintended pregnancies, 60 million unplanned births, 105 million induced abortions, 2.7 million infant deaths, 215,000 maternal deaths and 685,000 children from losing their mothers due to pregnancy-related deaths each year.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Family Planning supports a move to roll-out a national vaccination programme to prevent cervical cancer and welcomes recent media reports that a decision on the programme is imminent.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Family Planning’s Invercargill Clinic is moving to a new location – just around the corner from where it has been for the last 20 years.
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Monday, April 07, 2008
Family Planning says a new ALAC advertisement suggesting a sexual assault after binge-drinking highlights one of the realities of “drunk sex”.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Family Planning and Tairāwhiti Polytechnic have launched a Family Planning clinic on the Polytechnic’s Gisborne campus.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Family Planning believes the way young women have been portrayed in recent media commentary has both highlighted and promulgated the “women as slappers, men as studs” double standard. Young men and young women have always been and will always be sexually active. The key is to ensure that they’re making choices in a sober manner, have the knowledge and the capacity to keep themselves safe from Sexually Transmissible Infections and unplanned pregnancies and are not subject to coercion or violence.
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
Communication, trust and respect are the three key ingredients for a healthy and successful relationship, according to most entrants in Family Planning’s Valentine’s Day competition.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Family Planning says people should have a heart this February 14 and give their relationships a health check.
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Family Planning is opening a clinic in a Wellington shopping mall – just the second time the organisation has located its sexual health services within a shopping complex.
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Monday, December 24, 2007
Family Planning is urging New Zealand women to make a life-saving New Year’s resolution in 2008 – to have a cervical smear test.
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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Family Planning says the busy holiday season is no reason for people to take short-cuts or risks with their sexual health.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
After 70 years as New Zealand’s pre-eminent sexual and reproductive health organisation, the Family Planning Association has today launched a new brand and logo – and an almost new name.
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Friday, November 16, 2007
A call by the Prime Minister for the Ministry of Health to investigate fast-tracking the introduction of the vaccine against cervical cancer has been welcomed by Family Planning which has been advocating for the introduction of the vaccine.
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Family Planning says every year New Zealand doesn’t have the HPV vaccine Gardasil available another group of young women become sexually active and are potentially infected with HPV – the virus responsible for cervical cancer.
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Family Planning says New Zealand’s ranking on UNICEF’s table of Teenage Births in Rich Nations is an urgent reminder of the need for this country to develop a teenage pregnancy strategy which addresses all the issues involved with teenage pregnancy.
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Friday, November 16, 2007
Family Planning joins calls for action on teen pregnancy rates
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
Family Planning welcomes new Chief Executive
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