Cervical Cancer Awareness
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. According to the CDC: More than 4,000 women die of cervical cancer each year. As many as 93%…
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Free Diabetes Prevention Program
More than 1 in 10 Georgia adults has diabetes, or more than a million people. Several hundred thousand more Georgians have pre-diabetes, a condition that…
Columbus Health Department Discusses the Dangers of Vaping
The Columbus Health Department stopped by to talk about the dangers of vaping, the myths of vaping, the deaths and injuries from it and if you want…
Columbus Health Department Holds Drive-Thru Flu Clinic
Have you gotten your flu shot yet? Well, maybe it's time to start thinking about it because the flu season is just around the corner. The Columbus Health Department is…
Columbus Health Department Welcomes Healthy Start Program
The Georgia Department of Public Health was awarded funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) through its Healthy Start Initiative: Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health. These funds will support the…
PrEP Clinic Now Open at the Columbus Health Department
PrEP, the maintenance medication to help prevent HIV, will be available at the Columbus Health Department, beginning Tuesday, October 1st. Pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, is when people take HIV medicines daily to lower their…
Back to School Vaccines
Could it already be time for school to start again? Yes!! Visit your local health department now and don’t wait until the last minute! Your child may need required immunizations or exams,…
National HIV Testing Day
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 1.1 million people have HIV, and one in seven of them don’t know they are infected. Knowing one’s HIV status…
Ladies Who PrEP Summit Aims to Empower Women
The Ladies Who PrEP Summit is a half day meeting that serves to increase PrEP awareness and uptake among women through community mobilization. The goals of the summit are to: · increase…
Free Hepatitis C Testing Day in Columbus
May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and May 19, is National Hepatitis Testing Day. According to New Horizons Behavioral Health, in the United States, millions of Americans have chronic viral hepatitis and most of…
