Infectious Diseases

Bye bye les microbes newsletter (French only)
Intervention Guide- Prevention and Control of Infections in Day-Cares and Schools of Quebec
Infections in day-cares– poster
Infections in day-cares– poster  (Inuktitut)
Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS) (French only)

Healthy sexuality: prevention, promotion & education
Contraception and family planning
Sexually transmitted & bloodborne infections (STBIs)
STBIs and sexual-health training and support for health-care providers
Sexual-health resources
Useful links

Healthy sexuality: prevention, promotion & education

Regional Activities:

• Healthy Relationships Week
  Week of February 14. Contact the nurse advisor for Public Health at your health centre for guidelines and funding applications. PDF: 2015 Healthy Relationships Week Poster (3 languages)
• World Aids Day - December 1
  Contact the nurse advisor for Public Health at your health centre for guidelines and funding applications.
• International Day against Homophobia, May 17
  Contact the nurse advisor for Public Health at your health centre for guidelines and funding applications.
• Ruban en Route / Ribbon on the Way:
  National Aboriginal Hepatitis C Awareness Month & World Hepatitis Day

Healthy Sexual Relationships and Safe Sexual Practices

• Healthy Relationships, Communication and Choices
• Sexual Diversity - orientation, gender expression and gender identity
• Abusive Relationships and Unwanted Sex

Risk Reduction

• Intravenous drug use and access to sterile injection materials
  The regional Public Health Departments have been mandated by the Service de lutte contre les ITSS (SLITSS) of the MSSS to implement a program for access to sterile injection materials in their regions. We expect the Nunavik program to be implemented in early 2016. 

Nunavik Sex-Education Program: please contact us to get a pdf copy: 819-964-2222, ext. 293.

Contraception and family planning

• Contraception methods:

• The Emergency Contraceptive Pill (ECP)

Sexually transmitted & bloodborne infections (STBIs)

• MSSS: Lutte contre les ITSS [Combatting STBIs] (French only)

• Sexuality and U / Ma sexualité

• Gonorrhea and Chlamydia Consultation & IPAP Sheets (replacing the questionnaire) and the Accompanying Guide
  Guideline & IPAP Sheets & Forms- Documents are available in French only
  GUIDE Accompagnent Consultation Santé Sexuelle
  IHC-Consultation santé sexuelle version
  IHC-IPAP version
  IPAP Sheet-IHC
  UTHC- IPAP
  UTHC-Consultationsanté

• HIV / AIDS

  • Programme national de mentorat sur le VIH-sida [Provincial mentoring program on HIV/AIDS] - French only

  • Catie - Canada’s source for HIV and hepatitis C information

• Syphilis (French only)

• Hepatitis C

  • Programme national de mentorat sur le VIH-sida - Le volet Hépatites [Provincial mentoring program on HIV/AIDS – hepatitis section] (French only)

  • Catie - Canada’s source for HIV and hepatitis C information

• Hepatitis B: Intervention Guide and Questionnaire (See Guide section below)

• HPV, Genital Herpes (French only)

STBIs and sexual-health training and support for health-care providers

Clinical guidelines, regional protocols & tools for standardized clinical practices: in French only

• INSPQ
  Updated program for combatting sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections, Nunavik – clinical-intervention section (French only)
   

• MSSS
  Le Guide québécois de dépistage des infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang [Québec guide to screening for sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections] – 2014 update (French only)

• Intervention guide on hepatitis B – January 2014 – 2nd edition (French only)

Training

INSPQ training for nurses: contact the nurse responsible for training at your Health Centre
Programmes nationaux de formation sur les infections transmissibles sexuellement et par le sang et sur les stratégies d'intervention auprès des populations vulnérables (Provincial training programs on sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections and strategies for intervention among vulnerable populations)  (French only)

Other STBI- Related training (French only)

Related to sexual orientation (French only)

Drug use and STBIs: intervening according to a harm-reduction approach (Phase 1) - (French only)

Video and teleconference training upon request: Contact the Nunavik Publich Health Sexual Health Team at 819 964-2222 ext: 269

Sexual-health resources

http://www.sexualityandu.ca/resource-library/health-care-professionals/resources

Useful links (some available in French only)

• Espace ITSS (INSPQ)
  Site for communication, discussion and shared information on the state of knowledge as well as clinical practices, experiences and initiatives in the area of sexually transmitted and bloodborne infections. The site, however, cannot reply to individual health questions from the public or substitute for medical consultation.

• SexualityandU.ca – The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC)

• Health Canada

• Association des intervenants en toxicomanie du Québec (AITQ)

• Coalition des organismes communautaires de lutte contre le sida – COCQ-SIDA

• Portail VIH/ Sida du Québec [Québec HIV/AIDS portal]

• Programme national de mentorat sur le VIH-sida [Provincial mentoring program on HIV/AIDS]

• Canadian HIV AIDS Legal Network

• Pauktuutit Sexual Health

• Aboriginal Sexual health

• FNQLHSS Commission Sexual Health

• Sexpressions: Marketplace-Sex Education Materials

• Rezo - Santé et mieux-être des hommes gais et bisexuels

• The Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)

• Native Youth Sexual Health Network