Island Sexual Health Society

Whoo hoo, we’re celebrating 100,000 views of our website!

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 [...]

Camosun College location closed Thursday January 19th

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.

Fort St. clinic closed today Wednesday January 18th

Due to the snow, our Fort St. clinic is closed today. We apologize for any inconvenience. Be safe and enjoy the snow.

Sexual health books to gift!

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 [...]

Holiday Hours

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 [...]

World AIDS day-December 1, 2011.

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 [...]

Are you young and interested in sexual health?

ISHS has recently formed a youth working group and are looking for more young people to be involved! The youth working group will help to ensure our clinical and educational services are as relevant and accessible to youth as possible. If you are between the ages of 13-25 and interested in sexual health, we’d love [...]

Closed for Remembrance Day

Our Fort Street location will be closed on Friday November 11, 2011 for Remembrance Day.

Our latest media piece about Pap exams on Shaw’s “The Daily”

As a follow-up to the awesome Pap Awareness Week that ended this past Sunday, we were asked to do an information interview for Shaw’s The Daily on the importance of Pap exams for those people with a cervix. You will see our community education coordinator, Jennifer Gibson, and the awesome Tara Paterson chat about pap [...]

Celebrate your Cervix @ Pap Awareness Drop-in Clinics

We’re very excited about participating in the annual Pap Awareness Week! And we want to celebrate with you by offering 2 separate drop in pap screening clinics! Island Sexual Health is hosting 2 drop-in Pap clinics in the Greater Victoria area: 1)Thursday, October 27th from 1:30-4:30 at our Camosun location (Top Floor of Richmond House [...]