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Kōrero: 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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Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jane Tolerton, Contraception and sterilisation – Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/interactive/27008/only-when-youre-ready (accessed 24 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jane Tolerton, i tāngia i te 23 March 2011.