Sexual health includes a person's physical, emotional and mental well-being and continues to evolve over the course of a person's life. Relationships, self-esteem, emotions, gender identity and sexual orientation are some of the many aspects of healthy sexuality. Please use the links and resources on this site to learn more about healthy sexuality.

Sexuality Education

Manitoba sites

• Communicable Disease Control, Manitoba Health - Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Manitoba 4 Youth - Sexuality and Pregnancy
• Manitoba Harm Reduction Network
• Sexuality Education Resource Centre of Manitoba
• Teen Talk Peer Support Program (KLINIC)
• Think Again - a Manitoba site for youth

Canadian sites

• Canadian Harm Reduction Network
• Canadian Youth, Sexual Health, and AIDS Study
• Planned Parenthood Federation of Canada
• Sex Information and Education Council of Canada
• sexualityandu.ca
  

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Sexual Orientation

• Egale Canada
• PFLAG Canada (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
• Rainbow Resource Centre

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Strategies

Manitoba Health has developed several strategies dealing with various aspects of healthy sexuality. These strategies outline important ways to support Manitobans by providing information, educational programs and reproductive health services. For more information on these strategies, please click on the links below.

• Manitoba's Provincial AIDS Strategy
• "As Long as the Waters Flow:  An Aboriginal Strategy on HIV/AIDS"
• Provincial Sexually Transmitted Diseases Control Strategy
• Women's Health Strategy
• Strategy on Sexual Exploitation

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Information on STIs (Sexually Transmitted Infections)

For information on testing, staying safe or other advice call: STI/HIV INFO LINES Winnipeg RHA 940-2200 AIDS/STI Information Line Nine Circles Community Health Centre Winnipeg 945-2437 Outside Winnipeg 1 (800) 782-2437 FACTS of LIFE Line Sexuality Education Resource Centre Winnipeg 947-9222 Outside Winnipeg 1 (800) 452-1957 Or contact your local public health office.

 

Fact Sheets

• Chlamydia:  A Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Gonorrhea:  A Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Information for Individuals who May Have Been Exposed to HIV, the AIDS Virus
• Syphilis:  A Sexually Transmitted Infection
• What You Need to Know About STI:  Sexually Transmitted Infections
  (Public Health Agency of Canada)
• What you need to know about Syphilis and what you can do about it
  (Public Health Agency of Canada)

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HIV/AIDS

• Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
• Canadian AIDS/HIV Information Centre
• Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt
• Canadian AIDS Society
• Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR)
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
• Canadian HIV Trials Network
• Federal Initiative to Address HIV/AIDS in Canada
• It's Your Health - HIV/AIDS (Health Canada)
• Public Health Agency of Canada:  HIV/AIDS
• World AIDS Day (Manitoba Health)