| World Population Day—Six Reasons to Support Family Planning | |
| By SuperUser Account onFriday, 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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| HPV vaccine programme supported | |
| By SuperUser Account onTuesday, 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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| Family Planning supports ad campaign | |
| By SuperUser Account onMonday, 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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| Let's hear it for the girls | |
| By SuperUser Account onThursday, 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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| Relationship recipe a winner | |
| By SuperUser Account onThursday, 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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| Have a heart this Valentine's Day | |
| By SuperUser Account onTuesday, 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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| Family Planning opens shopping mall clinic | |
| By SuperUser Account onTuesday, 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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| Safer sex – all wrapped up | |
| By SuperUser Account onTuesday, 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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| New brand for Family Planning | |
| By SuperUser Account onWednesday, 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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| Family Planning welcomes PM's cervical cancer vaccine call | |
| By SuperUser Account onFriday, 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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| Young women exposed to cervical cancer risk | |
| By SuperUser Account onFriday, 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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| Family Planning welcomes UNICEF report | |
| By SuperUser Account onFriday, 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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