Features from This Week: Positive Childhood Experiences, Fungal Infections, and more!

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Week in Review

Positive Childhood Experiences

Young children experience the world through their relationships with parents and other caregivers. Children and families thrive when they have access to safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments. These relationships and environments are the key to creating positive childhood experiences.

Help children thrive >

Fungal Infections

Fungi are everywhere. Sometimes, they are too small to see with the naked eye. Fungi can live outdoors in soil and on plants; indoors on surfaces and in the air; and on people’s skin and inside the body. There are millions of fungal species, but only a few hundred of them can make people sick.

Protect your health >

En Español

Say No to Raw Dough When you prepare homemade dough for cookies, cakes, and bread, you may be tempted to taste a bite before it is fully baked. But steer clear of this temptation—you can get sick after eating or tasting unbaked products that are intended to be baked, such as dough or batter.  Stay healthy > En Español

HIV Prevention

PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) is medicine people at risk for HIV take to prevent HIV. If taken as prescribed, PrEP is highly effective for preventing HIV from sex. PrEP is much less effective when it is not taken as prescribed.

Learn about your HIV risk and how to lower it >

En Español

Tornadoes To stay safe during a tornado, prepare a plan and an emergency kit, stay aware of weather conditions during thunderstorms, know the best places to shelter both indoors and outdoors, and always protect your head. Be prepared > En Español

Drug-Free Communities

The Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Program is a nationwide effort, led by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to provide funding and support to community coalitions in their work to prevent and reduce youth substance use. 

Prevent youth substance abuse >

Disease of the Week Colorectal Cancer	Image of the Week Serological plate

COVID-19 in the U.S.

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