We’ll be rockin’ the pink shirt tomorrow to indicate our participation in Pink Shirt day. Our participation in Pink Shirt Day indicates that we will not tolerate bullying of any type and we work to promote inclusion and acceptance of every person all of the time. We know that bullying has huge impacts on the lives of all and can create barriers to health care…
We work really hard here at ISHS to reduce the stigma that surround STIs and we love it when people help us to do that! Recently, our educator, Jennifer was interviewed by Alex Davidson at The Martlet, the UVIC newspaper for an article about STIs and stigma. Thanks so much to Alex for the great piece, it will…
Beginning on Sunday, February 12th, 2012, it’s National Sexual and Reproductive Health week. The theme this year is “Not everything has to go viral” intended to be a great way to combine society’s relationships with social media and sexual and reproductive health awareness. ISHS will be participating by facebooking and tweeting to offer interesting, educational, and maybe even…
In partnership with Belmont High School, we are very pleased to announce the opening of a sexual health clinic at Belmont beginning February 9th, 2012. The clinic will be open on Thursday afternoons between 12-4pm in the community resource room (where the public health nurse, Cheryle Taylor works out of) between room 115 and the counselling…
Since we relaunched our website in September 2011, we have noticed a large increase in site traffic and have officially passed the 100,000 viewing mark. We want thank all of you who have made this site a success including Sherwin and Becky at Pink Sheep Media for building us such a great site. If there are…
Due to weather, our Camosun College location is closed Thursday, January 19th. We will re-open next Thursday January 26th, 2012 @ 1:30. If you need supplies in the meantime, you can go to the Fort Street clinic. All of our clinics are operating with normal hours. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Due to the snow, our Fort St. clinic is closed today. We apologize for any inconvenience. Be safe and enjoy the snow.
Looking for a great way to combine talking to the youth in your life about sexual health and gift giving? How about a book on sexual health? They may never admit that it’s one of their (or your!) favourite gifts of all times but it’s one never to be forgotten. We have compiled a reading list of awesome titles (youth…
Happy Holidays from the staff and volunteers at Island Sexual Health. Look below for modifications to our clinical schedules during the holidays. Fort Street Location Friday December 23rd 9-12:30 all services & 12:30-2 Pill Pick-Up ONLY Saturday December 24th – CLOSED Sunday December 25th – CLOSED Monday December 26th – CLOSED Tuesday December 27th – CLOSED…
Since 1988, World AIDS day has been held every year on December 1st as a time for the world’s people, communities, and organizations to reflect, recognize, and act upon the HIV epidemic. In 2011, HIV continues to have a devastating impact on the lives of the millions of people infected and affected by the virus. According…
