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Family Planning is New Zealand's leading provider of sexual and reproductive health services and information.
Family Planning has a network of 30 clinics across New Zealand. We have been providing sexual and reproductive health services for more than 80 years.
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Family Planning concerned by Mates and Dates programme
Friday, 3 August 2018, 1:51 pm | Family Planning NZ
Family Planning Chief Executive Jackie Edmond says ACCs decision, without consultation, to fund an isolated, stand-alone relationships and consent programme is disappointing. More >>
Cross-party group marks World Population Day
Tuesday, 10 July 2018, 1:50 pm | Family Planning NZ
This Wednesday (11 July) is World Population Day. The theme this year is “Family planning is a human right”. More >>
A Family Planning Film Fundraiser: Girl Rising
Thursday, 5 October 2017, 5:24 pm | Family Planning
Family Planning is hosting a film screening of Girl Rising to raise awareness of the impact of education on girls’ and women’s health and lives. More >>
Highlighting LARCs On World Contraception Day
Tuesday, 26 September 2017, 8:47 am | Family Planning NZ
Long-acting reversible contraceptives – or LARCs – are quietly revolutionising the way people manage their fertility. Unfortunately not everyone can afford them. More >>
Abortion report calls for legislation review
Friday, 3 February 2017, 12:15 pm | Family Planning
The Abortion Supervisory Committee (ASC) has released its annual report today with a call for the 40 year old legislation which governs New Zealand’s abortion services to be reviewed. More >>
Pacific parliamentary leaders strengthen commitments to SDGs
Friday, 30 September 2016, 2:40 pm | Family Planning
Representatives and parliamentary leaders from Cook Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu and New Zealand met in Wellington this week (28-29 September) for a workshop on prioritising sexual and reproductive ... More >>
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in the SDG
Wednesday, 21 September 2016, 2:35 pm | Family Planning
More than 30 delegates, including key leaders and parliamentarians, from 10 Pacific countries will be at the New Zealand Parliament next week. More >>
Support for all Maori women
Thursday, 4 August 2016, 11:17 am | Family Planning
Te Whāriki Takapou Chief Executive, Alison Green says her organisation supports all Māori women, regardless of age, to access an abortion with the knowledge that their health information will be confidential as required by the Privacy Act 1993 ... More >>
New STI data
Friday, 11 December 2015, 1:46 pm | Family Planning NZ
New STI data provides further evidence of inequitable sexual and reproductive health outcomes, Family Planning says. More >>
Pacific Parliamentarians in NZ next week
Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 9:19 am | Family Planning NZ
Parliamentarians from five Pacific nations and the head of the world’s second largest NGO will meet in Wellington on 29 June to consider how to better involve boys and men in sexual and reproductive health in the Pacific. More >>
Sexuality education guidelines
Friday, 29 May 2015, 10:28 am | Family Planning
New sexuality education guidelines released yesterday are directly linked to the New Zealand Curriculum. This connection is applauded by Family Planning which says the guidelines provide much needed support to school boards, principals, and teachers ... More >>
New UNFPA report links progress and power to young people
Wednesday, 19 November 2014, 1:42 pm | Family Planning
A UN report launched today calls for investment in young people as they are essential to social and economic progress. More >>
Consent and sexuality education - Family Planning
Friday, 31 October 2014, 9:58 am | Family Planning
Consent is a key theme in the comprehensive sexuality education programmes that Family Planning has been teaching and advocating for over many years. Family Planning chief executive Jackie Edmond says the organisation welcomes the decision by the Ministry ... More >>
Positive Steps For Women
Friday, 6 June 2014, 9:33 am | Family Planning Association
The release of a women’s policy, including a comprehensive sexual and reproductive health policy, provides a platform to discuss these issues more widely during the election campaign. The Green Party has today released its Women’s Policy. Family ... More >>
Appointments simpler with new contact centre
Wednesday, 20 November 2013, 11:02 am | Family Planning
Family Planning has today launched stage one of a three stage plan to make its services easier to access – and clients can expect more new developments in 2014. More >>
Family Planning wants recommendations implemented
Tuesday, 19 November 2013, 9:57 am | Family Planning
Family Planning says young New Zealanders deserve to have the recommendations of a Parliamentary Select Committee report implemented in full – and the organisation is putting its weight behind the Committee’s call for a cross-sectoral action plan ... More >>
Call for improvement in sexual health statistics
Thursday, 31 October 2013, 10:37 am | Family Planning
Call for improvement in sexual health statistics There’s much room for improvement in New Zealand’s sexual and reproductive health statistics, Family Planning chief executive Jackie Edmond says. Speaking to delegates at the opening of Family Planning ... More >>
Kiribati Youth Back Pacific Sexual Health Report
Wednesday, 14 August 2013, 3:28 pm | Family Planning
Yesterday New Zealand MPs Jan Logie and Asenati Lole-Taylor were joined by Kiribati Parliamentarians, key officials, civil society representatives and around 100 young people from five different youth groups at National Parliament in South Tarawa to ... More >>
IDAHO a perfect time to deliver new resource
Friday, 17 May 2013, 10:10 am | Family Planning
Family Planning has just released a new resource for young women thinking about their sexual identity. More >>
MPs Tackle Adolescent Sexual Health in Solomon Islands
Wednesday, 6 March 2013, 8:59 am | Family Planning
New Zealand MPs Hon. Maryan Street and Dr. Cam Calder were joined by Solomon Islands MPs, key officials, representatives of international organizations and civil society representatives at National Parliament in Honiara to launch a report on adolescent ... More >>
