The Halifax Sexual Health Centre is appealing to the province to inject more funding into the charitable organization, saying the clinic has reached an "unsustainable" level of demand partly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Halifax Sexual Health Centre's list of services with prices. "I go to mostly walk-in clinics, and they don't have the same type of training as far as using inclusive language as they do at the sexual health clinic," they said. It receives some funding through a network of organizations called Sexual Health Nova Scotia, which receives funding from the provincial government. In 2019 the Halifax Sexual Health Centre received $117,340 directly from the Department of Health and Wellness to support its work at preventing sexually-transmitted blood-borne infections like HIV and syphilis.

Source: CBC News August 11, 2020 09:00 UTC