York Region-Markham Sexual Health Clinic

York Region’s Sexual Health Clinics provide the following services at no cost, in a non-judgmental and inclusive environment. A health card is not required.

Services Offered:

• Free condoms
• Pregnancy tests, counselling and referral
• Sexual health examinations
• Sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and treatment
• HIV testing (including anonymous HIV testing and Rapid HIV testing)
• HIV Pre-exposure prophylaxis (HIV PrEP) prescriptions
• Hepatitis A and B vaccination
• Gardasil 9 vaccination
• M-pox vaccination
• Harm reduction services (needle exchange, safer smoking supplies and Naloxone)
• Low-cost contraception
• Emergency contraception
• IUD insertions (clients 30 years of age and under or without OHIP)
• Pap testing (clients 30 years of age and under or without OHIP)

Also offers: Facilitate sexual health education and promotion:

• Workshops
• Displays
• Printed resources
• Clinic tours are available for select groups

York Region offers sexual health services to help schools educate their students:

• Consultation and curriculum supports to promote sexual health education in schools
• Consultations with public health nurses on issues relating to promoting sexual health in schools

York Region’s sexual and blood borne infection (SBBI) program includes:

• Counselling to clients who have a sexually transmitted infection (STI) and/or blood borne infection (BBI) to ensure treatment, follow-up and referral
• STI medications at no cost to clients and health care providers to treat clients who have tested positive for a reportable STI or are a contact of someone who has tested positive for an STI
• Partner notification and counselling for people who may have been exposed to a STI or BBI
• Distribution of information resources
• Education and support to health care providers about STIs and BBIs
• Working in partnership with other groups to support the awareness, treatment, prevention of STIs and BBIs
• Monitoring of STIs and BBIS
• Facilitating the Mandatory Blood Testing Act (MBTA)
• Outreach to shelters and community partners