Pride lasts all summer in Nova Scotia, and we use this as our opportunity to connect with the 2S/LGBTQIA+ community across the province and raise awareness of our services and programs. HEAL NS is planning an expanded Proud Summer Tour this year, with the goal of having a presence at 10 Pride festivals across Nova Scotia.

At each festival, HEAL NS will participate in the local community market or other cornerstone event with a resource booth. Staff of HEAL NS will be on site to provide information on, and answer questions about, the programs and services we offer. Visitors will also be able to pick up sexual health kits and sign-up to receive at-home STI and HIV test kits through STI Care Now.

2025 HEAL NS Proud Summer Tour

• Pictou County Pride (06/20)
  • Market and Fun Day, Pictou Waterfront, 3-8pm
• Annapolis Valley Pride (06/28)
  • Artisan Market, Kentville Centre Square, 12-5pm
• Truro Pride (06/28)
  • Fun Day, Truro Civic Square, 12-4pm
• Annapolis Royal Pride (07/05)
• Lunenburg Pride (07/06)
  • Big Gay Get-Together, Shipyards Landing, Bridgewater, 4-6pm
• Halifax Pride (07/19)
  • Community Market, Garrison Grounds, 1-5pm 
• St. Margaret’s Bay Pride (07/26)
  • Pride Fest Market, Hubbards Barn, 10am-12:30pm
• Pride Cape Breton (08/09)
• Eastern Shore Pride (08/17)
  • Pride Market, Musquodoboit Harbour Railway Museum, 10am-2pm

* dates and locations subject to change

Thank you to our Tour Sponsor, ViiV Healthcare.

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What is Peer N Peer?

Peer N Peer is a peer-led queer substance use and sexual health program.

Rooted in harm reduction principles, the Peer N Peer project meets people where they are at on their substance use and sexual journeys. 

The Peer N Peer team is here to support 2SLGBTQIA+ people in using substances more safely, improving their sex life, changing how substances affect their sex life, and reducing or abstaining from substance use if that’s their goal. The Peer N Peer team is here to help with whatever goals individuals may have around sexual health and substance use.

Supports and services offered by the Peer N Peer team include:

• Screening and Referrals
• Peer Support
• Access to Harm Reduction Supplies
• Education & Outreach
• Flexible hours

Harm Reduction Supplies offered by the Peer N Peer Project include:

• Condoms
• Silicone lube
• Safer fisting kit
• Safer snorting kit
• Safer injection kit
• Safer crack/meth kit
• Fentanyl testing kits
• Glass stems 
• Brass screens
• Wooden push sticks
• Vitamin C
• Matches
• Bubble pipes
• Rubber mouth pieces
• Syringes 
• Filters
• Tourniquets
• Sterile water
• Cookers
• Alcohol swabs
• Naloxone Kits
• Hormone Replacement Therapy Kits

We also offer sharps disposal.

Supplies can be delivered via Canada Post if you are unable to come into the project office. The Peer N Peer office is located at 5516 Spring Garden Road, Suite 203, Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Peer N Peer program is funded by Health Canada's Substance Use and Addictions Program through national program partner, Vancouver-based CBRC.

Info & Resources

These resources were created through the Peer N Peer program and are being kept up for informational purposes. They were created in 2022 and some of the included information may be out of date.

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Addictions Resources For The 2SLGBTQIA+ Community

What is Chemsex or PnP?

Chemsex or PnP Party Tips

Anal Douching Guide

What is Sex Addiction?

How To Access Hormone Replacement Therapy

This campaign was originally developed by the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia to fit with the 2018 UNAIDS World AIDS Day theme of “Know Your Status” and highlights the importance of effective testing.

In the past several years there have been a number of significant developments in HIV prevention leading to a more complete and nuanced understanding of the variables impacting HIV transmission. The Five Facts awareness campaign is about making those variables better known to the general public, so people can make better-informed decisions about their sexual health. Please feel free print copies of these posters, share them over social media and use them in your organizations, places of work, etc.  Tell us about it and give us your feedback : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

AIDS Awareness Campaign 2015/16: Together we can stop HIV stigma

This campaign was developed by the AIDS Coalition of Nova Scotia, in partnership with the Northern Healthy Connection Society (formerly the Northern AIDS Connection Society), the Ally Centre of Cape Breton, Healing Our Nations, the Positive Women’s Network, the Gender and Health Promotion Studies Unit at Dalhousie University, and the Nova Scotia Advisory Commission on AIDS, in the fall 2015. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness about the stigma people living with HIV face, as well as to raise awareness about HIV testing and risk.

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