Provides free primary health care and health information for residents ages 19 and up of the Downtown Eastside and Strathcona area who do not have a primary physician and who have challenges accessing traditional health care services; an intake is required bef...

Provides a range of services including IUD insertion and emergency contraception IUD insertions, IUD removals, medication abortion, diaphragm fitting, endometrial biopsies, and contraceptive implant removal. Medication abortions are available BC-wide via teleh...

Regulates and monitors public facilities and those aspects of the environment that have a direct impact on public health. Environmental Health Officers (EHOs) ensure that public health standards are met in restaurants and food service locations, public food ha...

Provides safe and confidential reproductive and abortion services. Staff are trained to provide non-judgmental care to women (cisgender and transgender), nonbinary, and Two-Spirit clients. Medication abortions are provided up to nine weeks pregnant at the clin...

The provincial reporting centre for reportable cases and categories of communicable diseases. Provides surveillance, detection, prevention, and consultation, as well as direct diagnostic and treatment services to people with diseases of public health significa...

Provides leadership for a coordinated strategy that focuses on prevention and care services for individuals and populations with or at risk of viral hepatitis in BC.

Provides free and anonymous testing, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for sexual health and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. Serves individuals with or without MSP coverage. Hours are 8:30 am to 7:30 pm Mondays and Fridays, 8:30 am to 4 pm Tu...

Provides medical services to individuals who are infected or at risk of infection from HIV and AIDS. Services include social worker services, analysis of patient response to drugs, analysis of viral and CD4 count, nutrition counselling, needle exchange, peer e...

Provides public health nursing services. Prenatal and Early Years services include prenatal nutrition and lifestyle information; education and information on pregnancy and childbirth; postpartum support, including physical and emotional well-being for mothers ...

Provides knowledgeable, gender-affirming, specialized health care to transgender and gender diverse people ages 15 and up. Youth ages 15 to 24, refugee claimants, and individuals with post-operative complications who live outside the VCH region will be conside...

Provides sensitive, confidential, and comprehensive health and emotional care to anyone from any province or country, age 13 and over, who has been sexually assaulted within the past seven days. Services include assessment and treatment of injuries and sexuall...

Facilitates the sexual health rehabilitation of clients with disabilities and their families through medical intervention, education, and emotional support. Offers a confidential, supportive environment in which to explore and express concerns. Also provides e...

Provides free STI and HIV testing, by appointment or on a drop-in basis. Also offers sexual health education, professional counselling, and advocacy services that help clients identify an action plan, and follow-up support to help its achievement. Serves gay m...

Provides low-barrier legal and wellness services to Two-Spirit, transgender, and gender non-conforming people. Services include hormone and surgery readiness assessments, ADHD assessments, support with ID changes including updating name and gender marker, and ...

Pregnancy support centre that provides help for women and teen girls experiencing an unplanned or problem pregnancy. Christian-based service operates from life-affirming values, including the belief that all humans have intrinsic value from pre-birth to elderl...

Provides health services to children ages 13 and under who have been sexually assaulted or abused, physically or emotionally abused, or seriously neglected. Referral accepted from physician, police, Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD), or commun...

Provides specialized gynecological services, in particular for women with chronic pelvic pain and endometriosis. Offers pain education workshops, pelvic floor physiotherapy, clinical counselling, medical management, and surgery. Physician referral required. Ho...

Provides support to women and their partners who have experienced recurrent pregnancy loss. Women who have experienced a single late miscarriage (at greater than 10 weeks gestational age) will also be seen. Services include gynecologic consultation, investigat...

Provides sexual and reproductive health care, information, and education for people of all ages, genders, and orientations. Services are pro-choice and sex-positive. Services include low-cost contraception, sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and trea...

Pregnancy outreach program provides health and social service support to women in the Vancouver Downtown Eastside who are dealing with a current or recent history of substance abuse, and are pregnant or parenting infants/toddlers younger than 18 months. Helps ...

Provides treatment with puberty blockers and/or gender-affirming hormones for transgender and gender-questioning youth up to the age of 17. Youth must be referred by a physician or nurse practitioner to set up an initial meeting with a nurse/and or social work...

A nurse practitioner and gynecologist provide complex contraception counselling, menstrual suppression, and dilator therapy in addition to regular reproductive health screening for transgender patients, adolescents age 16 and older, adult women with intellectu...

Provides services for women experiencing an unintended pregnancy, or who require an abortion for genetic or medical reasons. Includes decision-making counselling, pre- and post-abortion counselling, and surgical abortions up to the 24th week of pregnancy. Prov...

Offers general health care for women ages 18 and up who are new to Canada (less than five years) and do not have a healthcare provider. Services include but are not limited to, cervical cancer screening, breast screening, testing for sexually transmitted infec...

Provides clinical care for women, children, and youth with HIV/AIDS. Also educates affected families, health care professionals, agencies, and the public about the complex issues of HIV infection in women and children. Accepts self-referrals from self or healt...