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.

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
• Sexuality/Reproductive Health (Canadian Health Network)
• sexualityandu.ca

NOTE:  Those resources indicated as will require the Adobe Acrobat Reader for proper viewing.  See link on left navigation bar to download the Reader.

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

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
• Sexually Exploited Youth

• Chlamydia:  A Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Gonorrhea:  A Sexually Transmitted Infection
• Hepatitis B Fact Sheet
• 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)

• Canadian Aboriginal AIDS Network (CAAN)
• Canadian AIDS/HIV Information Centre
• Canadian AIDS Memorial Quilt
• Canadian AIDS Society
• Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR)
• Canadian Health Network
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Care Giving Professionals (CHAP)
• Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
• Canadian HIV Trials Network
• Health Canada:  Canadian Strategy on HIV/AIDS
• "HIV/AIDS:  Confronting the Global Pandemic"
• It's Your Health - HIV/AIDS (Health Canada)