Protecting Yourself and Others

Safer sex and safer drug use

Sexual Health and Safer Sex

How to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV and/or hepatitis C

• Safer sex guide
• Safer sex
• Brazen: trans women's safer sex guide – The 519 | CATIE
• Condoms for the prevention of HIV transmission
• The Power of Undetectable: What you need to know about HIV treatment as prevention
• HIV treatment and an undetectable viral load to prevent HIV transmission
• Oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP)

See also, Sexual Heath and Safer Sex in our Prevention section.

Safer Drug Use and Harm Reduction

How to reduce the transmission of HIV and/or hepatitis C for people who use drugs or have tattoos and piercings

• Pre-fix, CATIE’s comprehensive new guide to living with Hep C or HIV for people who inject drugs
• Tips for Preventing Overdoses – Queen West Central Toronto Toronto Community Health Centre | CATIE
• Harm reduction as a tool to healthy living from Managing Your Health, CATIE’s guide for people living with HIV
• Harm reduction
• Information on street drugs
• Safer injection
• Anabolic Steroids: Roids/Slop/Juice/Sauce – Ottawa Public Health | CATIE
• Safer crack smoking
• Safer snorting
• Safer tattooing & piercing
• Routine practices & Universal precautions

For more, see Substance Use and Harm Reduction in our Prevention section.