Family Planning International issues media releases and is also available for media queries on international population and development issues, including the following areas:
- The Pacific region
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Development
- Overseas Development Assistance/Aid
- Family Planning
- Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs)
- HIV and AIDS
- Sexuality
- Contraception
- Reproductive health supplies
- Maternal health and safe motherhood.
- The status of women
- Population growth and dynamics
- Millennium Development Goals
- International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD)
- Working with parliamentarians on population and development
- Working with men to improve sexual and reproductive health
We can potentially offer both spokespeople and images for media queries.
In addition to those listed here, we have produced several media releases in our role as Secretariat of the New Zealand Parliamentarians' Group on Population and Development.
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Melbourne, 1. September 2010: A crucial UN Declaration released today at the UN DPI / NGO Conference “Advance global health – achieve the MDGs”, held in Melbourne, received support from NGO groups but for many the Declaration overlooked the priority issue of access to sexual and reproductive health which is vital to achieving not only MDG 5 but all the MDGs.
Sexual and reproductive health in Pacific needs urgent investment to achieve Millennium Development Goals
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Melbourne, 31. August 2010: Without increasing investment in sexual and reproductive health in the Pacific, many of the Millennium Development Goals in the region will not be achieved, stated New Zealand-based Family Planning International at a workshop on ‘The Unfinished Agenda of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights’ at the 63rd United Nations Department of Public Information/NGO (UN DPI/NGO) conference in Melbourne.
New report on the integration of HIV and sexual and reproductive health services in the Pacific
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Wellington, 30 August 2010: To improve primary health care outcomes, regional health stakeholders should increase efforts to appropriately link and/or integrate HIV services with other sexual and reproductive health services in Pacific Island countries, recommends Family Planning International in their latest resource ‘Integrating HIV & Sexual and Reproductive Health: a Pacific specific mapping’.
Calls for More Pacific Reproductive Health Data on World Population Day
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Wellington, 11th July 2010: ‘Everyone Counts’ is the theme of this year’s World Population Day, and Family Planning International is marking the day by calling for more reproductive health and demographic data collection and analysis to be carried out in the Pacific region.
Sex and the Global Economic Crisis - International Expert Visits New Zealand
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7 April 2009: The case for additional investment in sexual and reproductive health and rights is compelling in the current climate of global economic crisis, according to Dr Sharon Camp, President and Chief Executive Officer of the United States-based Guttmacher Institute.
Family Planning International Welcomes President Obama's Landmark Step to Save Women's Lives
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27 January 2009: Family Planning International welcomes US President Barack Obama's landmark decision to repeal the Mexico City Policy.
UN Report Calls for Increased Focus on Culture
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17 November 2008: The Pacific launch of UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund’s 2008 State of the World Population report Reaching Common Ground: Culture, Gender and Human Rights was hosted by Family Planning International in cooperation with the Council for International Development.
The Other Financial Crisis
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16 October 2008: A financial crisis is nothing new for the 1.4 billion people the World Bank estimates are living in poverty worldwide say international development NGOs.
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