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Media release archives

• World AIDS Day - ring a bell? - 2 December 2005
  Bells will ring out to mark World AIDS Day today and New Zealand will join in the chorus of 1,000,000 bells pealing in collective resonance around the world to raise AIDS awareness.
  
  
• Gender equality essential - 12 October 2005
  Gender inequality in the Pacific must be addressed to halt the slide into poverty that is occurring in parts of the region, according to a visiting representative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
  
  
• US to implement new rules for AIDS funding - 24 May 2005
  The Family Planning Association says a new “pledge” requirement out of the United States will have an impact on organisations that use US money in programmes to fight HIV/AIDS.
  
  
• Inclusion of SRH in MDGs is critical - 5 May 2005
  Meeting in Bangkok from 27^th-28^th April, a number of Asia-Pacific NGOs who are members of the Asia Pacific Alliance: Advancing the International Conference on Population and Development (APA/ICPD) called for sexual and reproductive health to be explicitly included in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their monitoring framework.
  
  
• Face of AIDS increasingly female - 1 December 2004
  Internationally, many women and girls are vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because of the high-risk behaviour of others, with women now making up nearly half of the 37.2 million adults worldwide living with HIV.   
  
  
• More support needed for poverty alleviation - 13 September 2004
  Countries are making real progress in carrying out a bold global action plan that links poverty alleviation to women’s rights and universal access to reproductive health says the latest UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) State of World Population report, entitled The Cairo Consensus at Ten: Population, Reproductive Health and the Global Effort to End Poverty.
  
  
• HIV/AIDS: A disease of young people - 13 October 2003
  HIV/AIDS has become a disease of young people warns the latest UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) State of World Population report, entitled Making 1 Billion Count: Investing in Adolescents’ Health and Rights.
  
  
• MPs look to Netherlands teen pregnancy success - 4 August 2003
  A former Dutch MP is in Wellington next week to offer New Zealand MPs and others insight into why the Netherlands has the lowest teenage pregnancy rate in the world and meets its international aid obligations.
  
  
• Plea for Condoms for Pacific - 7 July 2003
  World Population Day is being marked in Wellington this Friday with the screening of a Vanuatu feature film and an urgent plea for help to buy condoms for the Pacific.
  
  
• Pacific Strengthens its Voice - 7 April 2003
  A "Pacific Voices" workshop in Wellington this week will help 30 participants to better convince their communities and governments of the importance of good reproductive health in achieving sustainable social and economic development.
  
  
• Bold Plan to Deliver Reproductive Health Supplies - 24 January 2003
  Delegations from Commonwealth Pacific countries who met in Auckland this week to discuss the unique challenge of ensuring the availability of reproductive health supplies in the Pacific have agreed on a Pacific Plan of Action. This will ensure that immediate steps are taken to increase the availability of commodities to help prevent unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS infections. It will also ensure that by 2015, everyone in the region will have access to the widest range of reproductive health services and commodities.
  
  
• Pacific Faces Condom and Contraceptive Crisis - 19 January 2003
  The shortage of contraceptives and other family planning, maternity and sexual health supplies in the Pacific will be the focus of a high level meeting involving several Commonwealth and Pacific Health Ministers, Pacific policy makers and NGO’s in Auckland this week.
  
  
• United States Position Rejected - 20 December 2002
  Thirty Governments from the Asia Pacific region, including New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific Island states have adopted an action plan focusing on population issues as central to reducing poverty in the region and to meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of the world’s poorest people, living on less than $1 a day.
  
  
• UNFPA Launches State of World Population 2002 - 3 December 2002
  Improving reproductive health is key to reducing poverty and promoting economic growth, says the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) State of World Population 2002 Report.
  
  
• FPA Says Complacency No Protection from HIV/AIDS - 29 November 2002
  New Zealanders who ignore safer sex advice continue to risk exposure to HIV/AIDS, and their chances of being infected are increasing, the Family Planning Association says.
  
  
• NZ Family Planning Condemns US Funding Decision - 29 July 2002
  New Zealand Family Planning’s International Development unit has condemned a decision by American president George Bush to deny US$34 million funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
  
  

Did you know that every minute around the world...
•	one woman dies from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
•	10 teenage girls undergo an unsafe abortion.
•	13 infants under 12 months die
•	57 people catch an STI
•	11 people are infected with HIV
•	the population increases by 150 people

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