What We Do
Our role is to provide sexual health education, testing, and services for adults and teens including:
- Birth Control (including Emergency Contraception)
- Pregnancy Testing and Options
- STI Testing and Treatment
- Sexual Health Education
- Cervical Screening
To book an appointment for any of these services, please visit the Sexual Health Clinic.
How We Do It
Thunder Bay District Health Unit’s Sexual Health Program promotes and celebrates healthy sexuality.
Staff in the program offer services based on our guiding principles:
- Respectful
- Non-judgmental
- Confidential
- A positive space for 2SLGBTQI+ persons
- Pro-choice
Sexual Health and You
Sexual health education is important. We encourage everyone to talk openly about sex with clinic staff and their own health care providers, so that they can get all the facts and make the right decisions for themselves.
Sexual Health Rights
In Canada, you have the right to make decisions about your body. You have the right to:
- Agree whether or not to have sexual relations
- Decide when to have sex or not
- Choose your partner
- Choose whether or not to marry and choose your spouse
- Respect your own body and your partner’s body, to protect yourself and your partner from STIs and HIV
- Choose your own doctor
- Choose a birth control method that is right for you
- Receive sexual and reproductive health care services
- Receive information about sexual and reproductive health
- Decide whether or not to have children, when to have children and how many children to have
For more information please visit the What is Consent? page of the SexandU.ca website.
Sexual Diversity
It is your right to identify your own sexual orientation and gender, just as it’s your right to identify your own religion and beliefs. Some people have a clear sense of their sexual orientation and gender from the beginning. Other people may have questions or require support. TBDHU can help anyone by providing education and connection to relevant organizations. For more information, please visit our 2SLGBTQI+ Resources page.
For Further Information
Call the Sexual Health Clinic at (807) 625-5976
or toll-free 1-888-294-6630