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National Latino AIDS Awareness Day is observed each year on October 15 to focus on the continuing and disproportionate impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) on the Hispanic or Latino population in the United States. Hispanics or Latinos represent approximately 17% of the U.S.

CDC Vital Signs - Hospital Actions Affect Breastfeeding

October is National Protect Your Hearing Month. Find out if noise at your workplace is affecting your hearing and learn how to prevent noise-induced hearing loss. Monitor noise levels and protect your hearing.

Administering vaccines to preteens, teens, and adolescents plus other education and resources for providers

Keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others.

The NCHHSTP Atlas is an innovative and interactive, online data tool that lets you use and analyze the most recent CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, STDs, and tuberculosis. The Atlas also gives you the power to build custom maps, figures, and tables that you can use for planning, reports, presentation, and advocacy. Newly updated, the Atlas has added an Advanced Query function, along with other features. We invite you to check it out!

The built environment includes the physical makeup of where we live, learn, work, and play—our homes, schools, businesses, streets and sidewalks, open spaces, and transportation options.

Learn more about Down syndrome and about Keaton, a boy with Down syndrome.

Interested in chronic disease data, risk factors, health indicators, and policy measures? CDC is making all these data and indicators much easier to access and use. Use the data to describe the burden of chronic disease as well as common risk factors, identify research gaps, monitor population trends, and evaluate programs.

With quality medical care, people with spina bifida can lead full, healthy lives. If you have spina bifida, it’s important to get the facts so that you can make the best possible health care choices

October 11 is International Day of the Girl Child, also known as Day of the Girl. This is a movement to raise awareness of issues that impact young girls worldwide. Learn about several of many important issues in the United States and what we can do to promote the health and safety of girls.

The story of Meagan, a 22-year-old woman who decided to have a lump in her breast checked through ultrasound. The test results found that the lump was not cancerous.

The story of Marleah, a 27-year-old woman with a family history of breast cancer.