STI Testing
Healthcare // Sexual Health
Accessing STI testing in Tofino can be challenging due to long wait times, both in booking an appointment with your physician to get a lab requisition, as well as booking an appointment at the Tofino lab.
Lab hours and booking options are available here.
Prepare Your Own Lab Requisition!
Prepare your own lab requisition to take to the lab and submit samples without needing to visit a health care provider.
There are several options available for at-home HIV testing through the organization CBRC. The Test@Home and Medicine Bundle initiatives provide free, confidential HIV tests that can be mailed to an address of your choice.
At home HIV testing kits
Test@Home - Community-Based Research Centre (cbrc.net)
“CBRC’s Test@Home program provides free HIV self-test kits by mail to 2S/LGBTQ+ folks anywhere in Canada. People can request up to four kits, which will be sent in discreet packaging from the Community Based Research Centre. People can use this service as many times as they like.”
Medicine Bundle
Medicine Bundle - Community-Based Research Centre (cbrc.net)
“This program was made by and for the Two-Spirit, queer, and trans Indigenous community with the goal of creating alternate pathways to testing and sexual health resources.
The Medicine Bundle contains an HIV self-test kit, Indigenous medicines (sage, sweetgrass, tobacco, cedar, lavender, Labrador tea, bear grease and Devil’s club salve), sexual health supplies, and additional resources. The purpose of this bundle is to bring the sacredness back into sex and give you access to a holistic approach to your sexual health needs.To be eligible to receive a Medicine Bundle, you must identify as Indigenous (First Nations, Métis, Inuit) and be a resident of what is colonially referred to as British Columbia.”