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Living with HIV

Hard selection rule for this guide: an entry belongs here only if it serves a person living with — or seeking testing or prevention for — HIV because of that, is free or explicitly labelled subsidized, and is reachable in Toronto. A handful of organizations below do much broader work and serve HIV-affected people only as part of that wider mandate (Women's Health in Women's Hands); those are cited only for the specific HIV-relevant fact that qualifies them, as a short pointer to their full entry in the guide that is actually their home — not restated in full here. Every cut this rule produced, and why, is in the build report.

This guide has two readers, and they are not the same reader. Someone who needs a test right now, or who is frightened because they think they might have been exposed, needs speed above everything else — they are not going to read a long page. Someone already living with HIV who needs ongoing care, food, housing, legal help or community needs a longer, calmer guide that does not rush them. The sections below are ordered for the first reader and stay longer and slower for the second; if you're in the first group, read only as far as you need to.

Two things decide whether someone reading this walks through a door at all, so they come first, before anything else: - Anonymous is not the same as confidential. Confidential means your name is attached to a record somewhere, protected by privacy law. Anonymous means no record anywhere ties the test result to your name. Below, every testing option states plainly which one it is — never guess, and never assume a provider's silence on this point means either answer, and never assume a service that avoids an in-person clinic visit is automatically anonymous — an online account with your name and contact details attached is confidential, not anonymous, and this guide says so plainly where that is the case. - Several of the doors below do not require OHIP, a health card, or proof of immigration status. Where that is true, it is stated in this guide in the provider's own words. Where a provider's own page doesn't say so — Casey House's Day Health and Community Care programs, for example — this guide does not claim a no-status-check policy for it that the provider itself never stated. Over-restriction is invisible and costly here: someone who assumes they'll be turned away for lacking OHIP may simply never call, and no one will know they didn't.

If you need a test, or think you may have been exposed

Hassle Free Clinic — Anonymous HIV/STI Testing & PrEP/PEP Program Canada's largest anonymous HIV test site: rapid on-site anonymous testing (finger-prick, results in minutes) or anonymous testing through the Ministry of Health's own lab (results in 1–2 weeks); free HIV self-test kits (via GetaKit and "I'm Ready to Know," mail-out or pickup); and a PEP/PrEP Program — same-clinic assessment and prescribing (Truvada, Descovy, or the 2-month Apretude injectable), lab testing and follow-up, with most patients able to get a next-day appointment and leave with an initial PrEP supply the same visit. If you think you've been exposed, this is the fastest confirmed door in this atlas to ask about PEP. hasslefreeclinic.org 66 Gerrard St E, 2nd Fl; call 416-922-0566. By appointment. Anonymous testing available — your choice of rapid on-site or anonymous lab testing. No health card required: the clinic's own page states its STI billing "does not require health cards." Separate Men's/Trans and Women's/Trans clinic hours; trans clients may attend whichever they're comfortable with. PEP's own cost varies by pharmacy and coverage — the clinic's own page does not state PEP itself is free, so this guide doesn't claim that.

GetaKit — Free At-Home HIV Self-Testing A University of Ottawa program offering free HIV self-test kits to Ontario residents, mailed to you or picked up at a partner location — no clinic visit at all. Register online, complete a short risk assessment, choose mail-out or pickup, and get your result through your own online account, with reminders for when to re-test. getakit.ca Online registration only. Free. Ages 18+ for HIV self-testing. Not anonymous — GetaKit's own FAQ says so directly: registering for the HIV self-test alone does not require information that matches your health card, but "this is not considered an anonymous test." Registration asks for your full name, an email and a phone number (GetaKit's own privacy policy), and your account and order history are kept as a health record for up to 10 years. This guide corrects v0.1's "anonymous by design" description, which conflated "no clinic visit" with "no record" — they are not the same thing. If anonymity itself is what you need, Hassle Free Clinic (above) is this guide's confirmed anonymous door; GetaKit is still a genuine, free, no-clinic-visit way to test at home, just not an anonymous one. GetaKit's separate STI lab-testing service runs only in specific partner health regions and Toronto is not named among them — treat that part as not confirmed available here; the HIV self-test service itself is stated as Ontario-wide and reaches Toronto residents.

Toronto Public Health — Sexual Health Clinics Free HIV/STI testing and treatment, plus birth control counselling, emergency contraception, and free condoms and lube — explicitly open to people without a valid health card. toronto.ca — Sexual Health Clinics Four TPH-run clinics (Bloor West, Scarborough, Jane–St. Clair, North York) plus partner clinics. No OHIP or referral required, per the City's own page — confidential, not stated as anonymous, so this guide doesn't call it that. PrEP/PEP are not offered at TPH's own sites; the City's page points people to Hassle Free Clinic (above) for that. Two of the City's own listed partner sites — Birth Control & Sexual Health Centre (960 Lawrence Ave W) and Rexdale Community Health Centre — are named on the City's current page as offering anonymous HIV testing (including the rapid test), alongside Hassle Free Clinic; this atlas has not independently verified those two partner sites beyond that listing, so treat them as a lead, not a confirmed entry. The Sexual Health Infoline Ontario (SHILO) offers free phone/chat support at 1-800-668-2437.

If you don't have OHIP, or you're not sure your status will let you get care

Blue Door Clinic (hosted at Casey House) Free, confidential HIV primary care built specifically for people who are uninsured or precariously insured: health assessments, HIV and other treatment, lab testing, immunizations, connections to medication-access programs, specialist referrals, case management and peer support. This is the clearest "no status check" door in this domain. caseyhouse.ca — Blue Door Clinic 119 Isabella St, Toronto. Explicitly serves people not covered by OHIP or IFHP — newcomers awaiting status review, migrant workers, visitors, international students, and Canadian-born people lacking adequate ID, per the clinic's own page. Self-referral or a referral from a health provider or community agency; by appointment only (Mon 9:30am–12pm; Wed/Thu 9:30am–3:30pm).

Hassle Free Clinic (above) also states no health card is required for its testing services. Casey House's own Day Health and Community Care programs (below) do not state a no-OHIP policy on the pages this atlas could read — if OHIP status is your main concern, Blue Door Clinic above is the confirmed route, not Casey House's general hospital programs.

If you're living with HIV and need ongoing medical or hospital-based care

Casey House Canada's first stand-alone HIV/AIDS specialty hospital: free inpatient sub-acute and end-of-life care; an Outpatient Day Health Program (interdisciplinary care for emerging health, mental-health and substance-use needs, time-limited and based on individual need); Community Care (drop-in nursing care, harm-reduction supplies, social-service navigation, peer support from people with lived experience); and hospital-based supervised consumption services, including supervised inhalation, for outpatient and inpatient clients. caseyhouse.ca 119 Isabella St; call 416-962-7600 (referral fax 416-907-7186). Self-referral or a family/friend referral accepted; drop-in intake is also available. Free. The hospital's own pages did not state an explicit no-OHIP policy for these streams — if that's your concern, see Blue Door Clinic above instead.

If you need legal help because of your HIV status

HALCO — HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario Free legal advice, brief services and referrals for anyone living with HIV in Ontario — no financial eligibility test for advice, brief services or referrals. Practice areas include HIV-related discrimination, privacy of health information, access to medications, HIV testing and public-health law, ODSP/OW and income security, tenant and housing law, immigration and refugee law, employment law, insurance, HIV criminalization and other HIV-related criminal-law matters, and powers of attorney. Full legal representation is also available to people who meet case and financial eligibility guidelines. French-language phone legal advice is available for the GTA via Centre francophone de Toronto. halco.org Call 416-340-7790 or toll-free in Ontario at 1-888-705-8889 (55 University Avenue, Suite 1400, Toronto, ON M5J 2H7), per HALCO's own Contact Us page — v0.1 did not state a phone number here because that page hadn't been fetched yet; it has now. Office hours Monday–Friday 9am–5pm; intake for new inquiries Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9am–5pm (not Tuesday or Thursday). Interpretation available in more than 300 languages. Free for advice, brief services and referrals; representation is income-tested. Ontario-wide, headquartered in Toronto.

If you need food, financial help, or housing support

A note on ACT (the AIDS Committee of Toronto). For 42 years, ACT was the front door many people in this city knew by name for HIV support and community programming. ACT closed permanently on March 31, 2026. Its website is still online, but the organization no longer runs the programs it used to — the Women's Zone, Positive Youth Outreach, and Gay Men's Coffee Night among them. If you were looking for what ACT used to provide: PWA Toronto (below) is the closest thing to its practical, food and financial support; Casey House (above) carries hospital-based and community HIV care; and Hassle Free Clinic (above) carries testing. None of these three replaces ACT's social and peer-support programming directly — that loss is real and is named again in Honest Gaps below, not tidied away.

PWA Toronto — Practical Supports (Essentials Market, Vitamins & Food For Life) A free food bank (Essentials Market: staple and culturally-appropriate foods, fresh produce, pet food, home start-up items, special-diet accommodation, baby items), free community-donated multivitamins every 3 months, and Food For Life meal support, for people living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto. A caution on this org's Financial Assistance program: PWA's own current page confirms the program remains severely curtailed as of August 2026 — a "Delayed Re-Opening" notice states emergency-only assistance continues for extreme cases of need, the Positive Seniors' Fund, Positive Children's Fund and Health and Wellness Fund all remain closed, and full reopening is still pending the outcome of PWA's Friends for Life Bike Rally fundraiser this same month, with no committed reopening date. If you have an urgent need, PWA's own page names a specific contact for emergency financial assistance: Ower Oberto, Linkage to Care Manager, (416) 506-1400 ext. 222, ooberto@pwatoronto.org. This guide does not present the Financial Assistance program as a generally-available fund; treat it as a last-resort line to ask about, not a standing program. pwatoronto.org 163 Queen St E, 2nd Fl; call 416-506-1400. Essentials Market: Wed/Thu 2–7pm, Fri 12–5pm (closed Mon/Tue) — registration process isn't published on PWA's own site, so call ahead to ask whether it's walk-in or requires client registration first. Serves people living with HIV/AIDS in Toronto.

Fife House — Supportive Housing & Food Security Long-term and transitional supportive housing (roughly 200 units across six residential programs plus satellite locations) for people and families living with HIV/AIDS, plus a free Housing Help drop-in (Tue and Thu, 1–4pm, 490 Sherbourne St) for people not yet housed with Fife House, and wraparound food-security programming reported at 24,000+ meals a year. Fife House's own current page states plainly that it does not provide emergency housing or emergency beds — the Housing Help drop-in is a way to start the intake process and get connected to other supports, not a same-day housing option. fifehouse.org 490 Sherbourne St, 2nd Fl; call 416-205-9888 (Housing Help team direct line 416-205-9888 ext. 392). The Housing Help drop-in and food-security programming are free; the residential housing itself is subsidized/rent-geared-to-income, not literally rent-free — stated as "subsidized," not "free," to stay accurate. Residential housing is by referral and a formal intake process, with a waiting list that can run years for long-term units; the Housing Help drop-in is a lower-barrier way in for people not yet connected.

If you want community, culturally-specific support, or peer connection

Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention (BlackCAP) Counselling, settlement, employment, education, housing help and groups for Toronto's African, Caribbean and Black communities living with or affected by HIV/AIDS, since 1989. Free HIV self-testing kits (via GetaKit) explicitly offered. Runs Community Outreach, MSM Outreach, Harm Reduction, Prevention, Refugee Settlement, and Women's Peer Support programs. blackcap.ca 550 Queen St E, Suite #150, Toronto; call 416.977.9955 or email info@black-cap.com, per BlackCAP's own current site — v0.1 stated no phone number was available; it now is. Free. Toronto. Worth knowing before you call: BlackCAP is currently operating under a Transitional Board (a governance rebuild in progress since 2024) — reconfirmed still in progress as of a Special Members' Meeting held July 23, 2026, named here as a caution, not a service reduction.

Africans in Partnership Against AIDS (APAA) Practical and emotional support, counselling and support groups (women's, men's and youth) for people living with HIV/AIDS from African communities in the GTA. A Heterosexual Men's support circle ("My Brother's Keeper") for HIV-positive African, Caribbean and Black heterosexual men, covering safer-sex practices and connections to immigration/settlement and employment resources; culturally- and linguistically-appropriate prevention workshops (including Project M, for Muslim girls and women 14–29); vitamins and supplementary drugs, drop-in, clothing exchange, emergency child care, interpretation, and a community kitchen. apaa.ca 526 Richmond St E, 2nd Fl; call 416-924-5256. Free. GTA. Distinct from BlackCAP above — APAA specifically serves African communities, with newcomer/immigration-settlement referral built directly into its programming.

Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP) — Sexual Health Education Free, culturally-informed sexual health education for the South Asian community: STI/HIV testing, prevention and management support through community events, workshops and one-on-one support, plus free condoms, dental dams and lube. Services offered in Hindi, English, Nepali, Pashto, Farsi, Arabic, Punjabi, Urdu, Dari and Tamil. asaap.ca Call 416-575-7605 or email SexualHealthCoordinator@asaap.ca. Free. Toronto.

Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) Free HIV/STI testing information, referral and accompaniment, peer counselling, harm-reduction programming (including a BIPOC Harm Reduction Program), and culturally- and linguistically- appropriate programs for East and Southeast Asian communities in the GTA — including 2SLGBTQ+ people, women, newcomers and migrant workers within those communities. acas.org 260 Spadina Ave, Suite 410; call 416-963-4300, Mon–Fri 10:30am–6pm. Free. GTA.

Latin@s Positiv@s Ontario (Latinos Positivos) A peer-support community built by and for Latin American (Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking) people living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario: capacity-building and leadership training, an HIV Poz Prevention peer-education program, and social and educational events. latinospositivos.ca 200 Gerrard St E, 3rd Fl; call 416-506-1400 ext. 109, intake Mon–Fri 12–3pm. Free. Ontario-wide. By intake appointment. A discrepancy worth flagging rather than guessing at: this org shares a phone line with PWA Toronto (above) but lists a different street address than PWA's own head office — noted here as-is, unresolved, rather than assumed to be an error.

Centre francophone du Grand Toronto (CFGT) — Programme VIH/SIDA A dedicated HIV/AIDS program for Toronto's Francophone community, run alongside CFGT's much broader French-language health, mental-health and settlement services: HIV/AIDS prevention outreach and community workshops, discussion and support groups, safer-sex material distribution, and case management/accompaniment for people living with, affected by, or at risk of HIV. centrefranco.org — Programme VIH/SIDA 555 Richmond St W, Suite 303 (a second site, 5 Fairview Mall Dr, is not currently taking new clients); call 416-922-2672. Free. v0.1 placed this organization in the testing section above, citing "free, anonymous HIV testing and free diagnostic/specialist care for uninsured immigrants without legal status." Neither claim could be reconfirmed on CFGT's own current pages this review — its dedicated HIV program page, and its general health-service pages, describe prevention, support groups and case management, not a testing service, and do not state a no-OHIP or uninsured-immigrant policy for this program specifically. Both claims have been removed, and this entry has moved here, to describe what CFGT's own pages actually confirm: a real, HIV-specific community door for Francophone Torontonians. For testing or care without OHIP, see the entries earlier in this guide. CFGT's much broader French-language health, settlement, employment, childhood/family and legal-aid services have a full entry in Guide 16 Help in Your Language; this pointer covers only its HIV-specific program.

PASAN (Prisoners' HIV/AIDS Support Action Network) Free support, education, harm reduction and advocacy for people who are currently or formerly incarcerated and living with, or at risk of, HIV and Hepatitis C, across Ontario — including the Cell Count newsletter (written for and by current and former prisoners) and practical support for people leaving custody. pasan.org 526 Richmond St E (same building as APAA above); call 416-920-9567, toll-free 1-866-224-9978. Free. Ontario-wide.

HelloOntario.info — HIV & Newcomer Status Resource Directory This is an information and referral directory, not a direct clinical service — named here because it's the clearest single Toronto-reachable answer for someone newly arrived who needs a starting point. A free, web-based directory built specifically for people new to Ontario (refugees, people with no status, permanent residents, temporary workers, international students, visitors, and people arriving from another Canadian province) who are living with, affected by, or want to learn about HIV — covering HIV basics, prevention, testing, immigration ("know your rights"), settling in, health-care access, legal services, and emergency resources, plus a downloadable pocket guide. helloontario.info Online only. Free. Built by ACCHO, CAAT, the Gay Men's Sexual Health Alliance and the Women and HIV/AIDS Initiative, funded by Ontario's AIDS Bureau.

If you're Two-Spirit or Indigenous: HIV testing, education and treatment-referral support is delivered through 2-Spirited People of the 1st Nations' Posi+ive Living program. That organization is already dual-homed at its cap of two full entries — in Guide 21 LGBTQ2S+ and Guide 17 Indigenous Services and Learning Traditions — so it is cited here as a pointer only, not built as a third full entry.

If you're a woman living with HIV, or need HIV/sexual-health care as a woman

This is the thinnest section in this guide, and that is stated plainly rather than padded. Several of the culturally-specific organizations above explicitly run women's programming (APAA's women's support groups and Project M; BlackCAP's Women's Peer Support program) — those are real doors and are cited in full above, not repeated here. Beyond those:

Women's Health in Women's Hands Community Health Centre (WHIWH) offers HIV/AIDS and sexual health services as one part of its much broader primary-care, mental-health and gender-based-violence programming for racialized and immigrant women in Toronto. Its full entry, with contact details, lives in Guide 11 Mental Health and Addiction — named here only for its HIV-relevant service line, since WHIWH's core mandate is broader than HIV. whiwh.ca

No row in this atlas describes a Toronto organization whose own basis for service is HIV-positive women specifically, the way BlackCAP's basis is Black communities or APAA's is African communities. See Honest Gaps below.

Not in this guide — cross-guide boundary

One fact, one home:

A dual-homing note: PWA Toronto (FT-9909), Fife House (FT-9911), and Blue Door Clinic (FT-9910) each already have a full entry in another guide (Guide 03, Guide 07, and Guide 10/Guide 15 respectively) from earlier waves, built before this guide existed. Because each organization's population is HIV-specific by its own mandate, this guide claims each canonical here too — at the two-home cap the fleet's dual-homing rule allows for a declared intersection, the same pattern Guide 21 used for LGBT YouthLine, Trans Lifeline and YMCA Sprott House. Recommend those other guides' copies convert to a one-line pointer to this guide as a fleet-wide follow-up; not edited in this lane.

Honest gaps

Every entry above traces to a row in the Free Toronto Resource Atlas (this library's resource atlas) via its <!-- FT-XXXX --> citation; this guide regenerates from the atlas — corrections happen there first, not by hand-editing this file.

Source: this library's internal records (v0.2, sealed). Cites 18 rows in this library's resource atlas, the atlas’s registry of record: FT-19002, FT-19008, FT-1011, FT-9910, FT-19001, FT-19003, FT-9909, FT-9911, FT-9579, FT-19004, FT-10226, FT-10227, FT-19005, FT-9222, FT-19007, FT-19006, FT-9905, FT-10217.