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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.

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.

Family Planning is urging New Zealand women to make a life-saving New Year’s resolution in 2008 – to have a cervical smear test.

Family Planning says the busy holiday season is no reason for people to take short-cuts or risks with their sexual health.

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.

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.

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.

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.