Services for people living with HIV/AiDS

Income support
Emergency health fund
Medical support
Personal support

Support for people at-risk

Contraception
Education
Referrals (income, food, education, sexual health counseling)

Income support

AIDS PEI provides monthly financial assistance to eligible clients.  Clients are required to meet with the Outreach Coordinator or Executive Director to apply for assistance.  You must provide AIDS PEI with documentation noting your HIV diagnosis.  A monthly stipend will be distributed on or near the 1st of each month.

Emergency health funds

Clients of AIDS PEI are also eligible to withdraw funds from an emergency health fund.  These funds are only to be used for medications not covered by the PEI drug plenary, travel for specialist appointments (when available) and other directly-related health costs.  Clients must apply to use these funds from the Executive Director, with receipts or a statement of need.

Medical support

AIDS PEI helps clients meet their personal health goals. If you are currently living on social assistance, you can receive financial assistance to attend specialist appointments in Moncton or Halifax. You must provide at least 10-days notice so that arrangements can be made. Receipts should be provided upon return.

Personal support

AIDS PEI provides clients with a safe, non-judgmental space to discuss any concerns with respect to living with HIV/AIDS, sex, mental health issues, referrals to other organizations with specialized mandates and personal development opportunities.

AIDS PEI will, from time to time, provide clients with an opportunity to attend local and national conferences and meetings which are sponsored by our partner organizations.

Contraception

Getting tested is a great personal health strategy to protect yourself and others from the harmful effects of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.  Sometimes, you might have made a bad choice to not use a condom and you’ve put yourself at risk for HIV or another STI.

If that’s the case, remember that everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is that you learn a lesson – carry and use a condom each and every time you have sex.  This is your best defense against contracting an STI.

Oral sex also carries an STI risk (see Education) and using a condom for oral sex is also recommended. If you engage in oral sex (such as fellatio (mouth to penis), cunnilingus (mouth to vulva/vagina), analingus (tongue to anal opening) then you should either use a condom or an oral dam, depending on the type of activity you are engaging in.

AIDS PEI ensures contraception (condoms, lubricants and oral dams) are available free of charge.  We also provide condoms to schools, youth clubs and other organizations who might have contact with at-risk populations). If you or your organization requires contraception or education on using contraception properly, please contact us!

Education

Are you working on a paper or school project? Need information for your students or your own kids? Or perhaps you’re just curious.  We have many brochures, pamphlets, books and videos available for public distribution.  Topics include safer sex, safer oral sex, sexually transmitted infections, HIV/AIDS basic information, pregnancy and HIV, women and HIV, gay men and HIV, safer gay cruising, safer relationships, safer injection drug use and more.  If we don’t have it, we can order information from our national partner, the Canadian AIDS Treatment and  Information Exchange (CATIE).

AIDS PEI has a menu of workshops and educational talks that we can put to work for you. Just call us to find out more.

Referrals

If you’re looking for help with mental health, testing, getting a doctor, human rights or another service that we can’t provide, we can refer you free of charge to the appropriate authority.