Sexual health blog
Our community educator, Jennifer Gibson, has started “blogging”:/blog/ about current sexual health news and ideas!
Our community educator, Jennifer Gibson, has started “blogging”:/blog/ about current sexual health news and ideas!
Jennifer Gibson MA, is the Coordinator of Community Education Services. She is a professional sexual health educator whose knowledge, sense of humour, enthusiasm, and comfort level give her the unique ability to make sexual health education accessible and easy to relate to.
If you have a few minutes, please consider filling out this survey and if comfortable, sharing the link: This survey has been created to explore the potential benefits of implementing the STOP HIV/AIDS program at our clinic and to get a “snap-shot” of the potential barriers and/or motivations around HIV testing. It is completely anonymous…
It’s a medical breakthrough! We now know that 99.7% of cervical cancer is caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) and we now have a vaccine that protects against “HPV”:/infections/genital-warts/! The new HPV vaccine, called “Gardasil”:/infections/genital-warts/, is now available and *you can get it right here at our Island Sexual Health Clinic*. Many doctors’ offices, medical clinics…
Our Westshore clinic location will closed for inventory on Tuesday, August 30th. It will be open again the following week for regular clinic hours. Sorry for any inconvenience.
****COVID-19 UPDATE**** To Island Sexual Health Patients We have changed our clinic hours during this critical response phase: We have closed our Quadra Street waiting room and reduced the volume of patients booked for in-person appointments. We have tele-medicine appointments available. Our clinic will only be accessible between 9-4 pm Monday-Friday for booked appointments and…
Condoms can reduce the risk of HPV and genital warts, but all sexually active females should have regular “Pap tests”:/exams/female/ to protect themselves.
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