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Story: Contraception and sterilisation

'Only when you're ready'

These cards, produced in the early 2000s, were part of a Family Planning (now Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa) initiative to educate young people about sexually transmitted infections and teenage peer pressure, and empower them in relation to sex.

Courtesy of Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa

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Jane Tolerton, Contraception and sterilisation – Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/27008/only-when-youre-ready (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 23 March 2011.