Educational and informative posts from your sexual health centre
“Every mother a willing mother; every child a wanted child.” The Morgentaler abortion clinic in Fredericton will close the end of July following a 20-year fight with the New Brunswick government over funding for abortions. This will affect abortion services not only in New Brunswick, but throughout the Maritimes, notably for PEI where there are …
As technology develops, how can sexual health educators innovate to help prevent the spread of STIs? Researchers and health professionals in Halifax are beginning to move their outreach and campaigns online, as more and more people are meeting and hooking up using online forums. You can read about what they discovered here. “Social …
This article from Nexus, the student newspaper at Camoson College, explores the term two-spirit and how it’s related but distinct from LGBTQ identities. ““Those categories are themselves a western construct,” says Dr. Sarah Hunt, a Kwakwaka’wakw writer and activist who teaches in the Indigenous Studies and Community Family and Child Services Program here at Camosun …
“As gay rights advance across the US, there is one group that feels it has long been neglected and isolated – the elderly. But that may now be changing, with a series of retirement housing projects opening to serve the gay community.” This short clip from the BBC shows one group of LGBTQ folks who …
The Nova Scotia Association for Sexual Health is doing a community consultation about the sexual health resources and services available in your area. Please consider completing the survey, it would be a big help for the organization. Our goals in doing this consultation are to seek input from the diverse communities throughout Nova Scotia about …