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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.

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.