Find a clinic near you
For answers to your sexual health questions, counselling, testing and referrals, there are many sexual health clinics throughout Ontario that are here for you.
Find a sexual health clinic in your neighbourhood
Find a PrEP clinic near you
PrEP is a highly effective way for some people to protect themselves from HIV and involves taking one pill a day. To talk to a health care provider about PrEP or to find a PrEP clinic close to you, please visit https://ontarioprep.ca/.
What to expect
When you visit a sexual health clinic, the public health nurse may discuss the risk factors with you, such as:
- Having sexual contact with people with a known STI
- Being sexually active and under 25 years
- Having a new sexual contact or having had multiple sexual contacts in the past year
- Being street involved and/or homeless
- Being a sex worker
- Having anonymous sexual contacts
- Being a victim of sexual assault/abuse
- Injection drug use
- Using other substances such as alcohol or chemicals (e.g., cocaine, Ecstasy)
- Having a previous STI
- Not using contraception or sole use of non-barrier contraception
If you report one or more of the above-mentioned risk factors, you will be offered:
- STI/blood-borne infection education and counselling specific to your personal needs, and testing
- Contraception / birth control counseling
- Birth control at a reduced cost and/or free of charge if you are experiencing financial challenges
- Pregnancy tests and comprehensive pregnancy counseling
- Post-abortion counseling and referral;
- Counseling, diagnosis, treatment, and management of STIs, including Pap test
- Counseling, testing, and referrals for blood-borne infections
- Vaccines at no cost according to provincial eligibility criteria
- Condoms at no cost
- If necessary, access to harm-reduction supplies through needle and syringe exchange programs – and potentially other harm-reduction counselling
If you require, a health care provider may discuss with you specifics of your situation and will provide counseling and referrals to other health care and social services.