AUGUST 2025 – National Health Observances

HEALTH EQUITY is when everyone has the OPPORTUNITY
to be as healthy (SPIRITUALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND MENTALLY) as possible.



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NOROVIRUS


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


Measles Cases & Outbreaks



  • August 1-31: Children’s Eye Health and Safety Awareness Month
  • August 1-31: Digestive Tract Paralysis Awareness Month
  • August 1-31: Gastroparesis Awareness Month
  • August 1-31: National Breastfeeding Month
  • August 1-31: National Eye Exam Month
  • August 1-31: National Immunization Awareness Month
  • August 1-31: Psoriasis Action Month
  • August 1-31: Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
  • August 1-31: Summer Sun Safety Month
  • August 1: National Minority Donor Awareness Day
  • August 1: World Lung Cancer Day
  • August 1-7: World Breastfeeding Week
  • August 3: Cloves Syndrome Awareness Day
  • August 3-9: National Health Center Week
  • August 18: World Breast Cancer Research Day
  • August 18-22: Contact Lens Health Week
  • August 19: World Humanitarian Day
  • August 30: National Grief Awareness Day
  • August 31: International Overdose Awareness Day


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(please reference these sites for additional information)


“Source: National Health Observances, National Health Information Center, Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC.”



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)


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