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Approximately 230 HDHHS employees and 20 community volunteers will visit about 9,000 homes April 9-12 to distribute information packets featuring community resources located within Near Northside neighborhoods.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) has opened Sharpstown Health Services, 6201 Bonhomme Road, in the city’s southwest.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services will sponsor a luncheon meeting to engage leaders from different city sectors in a new campaign to help reduce HIV and AIDS in the African-American community.
A large red poinsettia AIDS ribbon, brief speeches by four people living with HIV or AIDS and a candlelight vigil will highlight a program sponsored by the Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) to observe World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.
City and county health officials are following up on the detection by air sensors of low levels of parts of the bacterium that causes tularemia, a treatable illness occasionally found in humans but more common in rabbits and rodents.
The Latino HIV Task Force, a group of Houston health agencies, will offer free HIV testing October 15 as part of the first National Latino AIDS Awareness Day.
The City of Houston's Heat Emergency Plan will go in effect starting Tuesday, August 5. The National Weather Service issued a heat advisory expected to remain in effect for southeast Texas the rest of the week. A heat advisory is issued when the heat index, a computation of the air temperature and humidity, reaches 108 degrees for two consecutive days.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services will provide vaccinations to children heading off to school at four local shopping malls weekdays in August from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The Houston Department of Health and Human Services (HDHHS) will conduct a meeting Monday, July 14, to obtain community input on health services that might be offered from the Riverside Health Center building.