HEALTH EQUITY is when everyone has the OPPORTUNITY
to be as healthy (SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND MENTALLY) as possible.
MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF AGING RESOURCES
2022 MONKEYPOX OUTBREAK
COVID-19: Guidance For Your Community
COVID-19: Vaccines and Boosters
COVID-19: Coronavirus The Disease 2022
Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV)
Influenza (FLU)
Shots & Vaccines
Medical Screening Tests
JULY 2024 NATIONAL HEALTH OBSERVANCES
Zero HIV Stigma Day (7/21)
Zero HIV Stigma Day is observed each year on July 21 to raise awareness about HIV stigma. Check out this resource from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — and use their social media toolkit to challenge HIV stigma in your community. Educate yourself about HIV by reading these personal stories from people who are living with HIV. Share MyHealthfinder’s resources to help people get tested for HIV and discover questions to ask the doctor about HIV testing. Finally, review this list of Healthy People 2030 evidence-based resources related to HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
World Hepatitis Day (7/28)
The World Hepatitis Alliance celebrates World Hepatitis Day as a time to educate about viral hepatitis. Use their campaign materials to help raise awareness online and with your networks. Get information about viral hepatitis from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). You can also share our MyHealthfinder resources to encourage people to get screened for Hepatitis C and stay protected against Hepatitis B. And be sure to check out the Healthy People 2030 evidence-based resources on viral hepatitis to help lower the rates of infectious disease in your community.
compliments of www.health.gov; healthfinder.gov; hrbanana.com, clinicaladvisor.com and www.cdc.gov
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19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? 20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s. – 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (KJV)