Family Planning Council has decided to apply to the Abortion Supervisory Committee for a licence to provide an Early Medical Abortion service.

 

International expert Professor David Grimes, M.D. FACOG, FACPM, is speaking at three public events in New Zealand in March.

 

Family Planning is encouraging people not to take short-cuts or risks with their sexual health over the holiday season.

A report on the health and well being of New Zealand secondary school students highlights many positives for young New Zealanders, in particular that most students report that they are happy with their family relationships and their parents care about them a lot.

Family Planning has released six new information resources and updated two existing resources in Chinese to meet growing demand from New Zealand’s Chinese-speaking population.

Acknowledge World Contraceptive Day (26 September) by making an appointment at your nearest Family Planning clinic to ensure your contraceptive choice is the best available option for you and your partner.

Family Planning is closing its Queen Street Clinic on Friday 28 November. If you have need of ongoing Family Planning services or need to make regular appointments, we can help you find a new clinic. We’re happy to help you find the clinic nearest to your home or work and can transfer your file to a new clinic – your first visit will be free.

If you’re female and aged between 20 and 70, then September is the month to make sure you’re up-to-date with your cervical smear test.

Upd@teMe – sexual health and relationship information for the over 40s looking for, or already in, a new relationship – is the newest resource produced by Family Planning.

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.

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.

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.

Family Planning says a new ALAC advertisement suggesting a sexual assault after binge-drinking highlights one of the realities of “drunk sex”.

Family Planning and Tairāwhiti Polytechnic have launched a Family Planning clinic on the Polytechnic’s Gisborne campus.

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.

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.

Family Planning says people should have a heart this February 14 and give their relationships a health check.