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  • Order Supplies
  • Workshops, Fairs, Consultations, and Presentations
  • Transgender Abortion Access Manual
  • Partner Tested Positive for… Guide
  • PrideHealth Gender Affirming Care Navigation
  • Action Canada Resource Hub

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In the News

  1. Gender-affirming care in Canada comes with barriers and delays, especially in N.S.
  2. Gender Affirming Care Town Hall - May 17, 2022
  3. Nova Scotia’s “discriminatorily underfunded” gender-affirming care system needs a revamp
  4. More doctors trained in gender-affirming care needed, say N.S. advocates
  5. HSHC at the Standing Committee of Public Accounts
  6. Only N.S. doctor performing gender-affirming surgeries discontinuing service
  7. N.S. advocates say loss of specialists supporting gender-affirming surgeries will cause a crisis
  8. Advocates say gender-affirming health care access crisis in Nova Scotia worsening as barriers increase
  9. North end Halifax thrift shop bought by anti-abortion group
  10. Group calls for consistent access to STI testing in N.S.
  11. Testing for certain STIs resumes in Halifax after pandemic forced suspension
  12. CBRC Training Improving Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Trans and Gender Nonconforming People in Nova Scotia
  13. Halifax Sexual Health Centre has 700 trans patients -- some could have been treated by their GPs
  14. Doctors NS: Dr Sue Atkinson
  15. Halifax doctor working on 'game-changer' urine test to detect cancer-causing HPV
  16. Testing for certain sexually transmitted infections resumes in Halifax
  17. The Signal: New online courses for N.S. doctors speeding up access to gender-affirming hormones
  18. Halifax Sexual Health Centre reaching 'unsustainable' level of demand
  19. The challenges of STI testing during COVID-19
  20. THE COAST: Halifax Sexual Health Centre sees people through their most intimate problems

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About HSHC

The Halifax Sexual Health Centre (HSHC) has been serving Halifax since 1970. Our health services and resources are sex positive, pro-choice, inclusive, and non-judgemental.

HSHC is a member-centre of Sexual Health Nova Scotia.

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Office Info

7071 Bayers Road, Suite 302
Halifax, NS
B3L 2C2

T:   902-455-9656      F: 902-429-3853

Monday 9 am - 5 pm
Tuesday 9 am - 8 pm
Wednesday 9 am - 8 pm
Thursday 9 am - 8 pm
Friday 9 am - 5 pm

Please note that when a doctor is not available for an evening shift, HSHC closes at 5:00 PM.

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