[Gallery] Women’s Health Awareness Day 2019 Achieves Goals
Durham, NC – With the theme “Transforming Communities by Enhancing Women’s Health,” over 800 women gathered at North Carolina Central University’s Mary M. Townes Science Building this past Saturday (April 6) to gain health-related information at the 5th Annual Women’s Health Awareness Day. The goal of this highly-anticipated community event was to focus on informing and empowering women to take responsibility for their health, encourage women to understand their health options, and identify services, resources, and products that best help them prevent poor health, which in turn reduces the number of health issues and creates health equity.
Women’s Health Awareness Day’s was a free event to the women of Durham and surrounding communities and served as an impactful affair offering a full day of break-out sessions, fitness classes, exhibitor booth visitations, raffle prizes and giveaways, lunch, refreshments and the opportunity to connect with other like-minded women. From 8:30 am – 5:00 pm, attendees had the opportunity to participate in yoga, zumba, and line-dancing, discuss autoimmune disorders, focus on safe dating in a digital world, participate in healthy cooking demonstrations, and receive education focused on cardiovascular health, diabetes, reproductive health, cancer, environmental health, behavioral health, latino health, mobility challenges, pulmonary health, and gardening.
Attendees were also able to receive on-site testing and screening, consisting of glaucoma, diabetes, depression, dental, HIV/HCV/syphilis, lung & skin cancer, cardiovascular, and spinal screenings; as well as kidney and lung function testing. In addition, there was organ donation registry, bone marrow registry, breast mammography sign-up, cervical cancer screening sign-up, and blood pressure and glucose checks.
Women’s Health Awareness Day was chock full of valuable information for every woman! Sponsored by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Office of Human Research Compliance, Durham Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Durham Alumnae Delta House, Inc. and North Carolina Central University Department of Public Health Education, Women’s Health Awareness Day empowered women to take back their health and no-longer neglect themselves while taking care of everyone else.
Photos: Santisha Walker, RN
