17 October 2001 Media Advisory

Launch of Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy, Phase One

Health Minister Annette King will launch phase one of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Strategy, Thursday, October 18.

Venue: Ministerial Dining Room, 2.2, Beehive.

Time: 4pm to 5pm.

Members of the Sector Reference Group, who provided expert advice to the Ministry of Health on the project, will be present at the launch.

Mrs King says that providers in the sexual and reproductive health sector have been telling her for some years that the sector lacks overall direction, and that services are fragmented.

“Phase One will provide the direction the sector needs, and from early next year we will be releasing action plans to address issues such as reducing sexually transmissible infections, the incidence of HIV/AIDS, and unwanted/unintended pregnancies.”

ENDS

© Scoop Media

Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>