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To address urgent public health needs across the region, Metro Healthy Communities and local philanthropists Trevor Burgess and Gary Hess are announcing a matching challenge of up to $100,000 to support expanded STI testing and linkage to treatment and care.
Tampa Bay’s Metro Inclusive Health Rebrands as Metro Healthy Communities.
After more than three decades serving Tampa Bay, METRO is revealing a new name and look reflecting the nonprofit’s growth into a regional network of health centers and local pharmacies, expanding high-quality and comprehensive care directly into neighborhoods across the
region.
A new era of HIV prevention has arrived in Tampa Bay, and Metro Healthy Communities is leading the way in making it accessible in Hillsborough, Pinellas, and Pasco counties. With Yeztugo (lenacapavir), you can protect yourself from HIV with just two injections per year.
As the rising cost of living continues to deepen health inequities across Tampa Bay, Metro Healthy Communities has reinforced its mission of comprehensive, community-centered care.
Metro Healthy Communities Peer Advocate and Health Educator Paula Delgado draws on her own experience living with HIV when it comes to offering help and hope to clients who’ve been diagnosed with the virus.
Florida one of 3 states with highest rates for new HIV diagnoses — Learn more with Dr. Victoria Otaño TAMPA, Fla. — The Centers for Disease
By combining HIV and Primary Care together, Metro Healthy Communities is vastly improving health outcomes for those living with HIV.
Tampa on the Forefront of Bone Health Awareness TAMPA — American Bone Health has chosen Tampa Bay as the test pilot for a new program
Metro Healthy Communities offers talk therapy and psychiatric help through TeleHealth METRO’s TeleHealth services branch beyond just talk therapy. In times of isolation, dealing with clinical
“We have more people coming in now because you have those people that don’t want to wait that 20 minutes,” Prevention Specialist with Metro Healthy Communities Shirlene Manuel said. “They say it lasts a lifetime. The people that we do the blood work on where we have a two day turn around on the blood work also think that’s a lifetime. To get that result in a minute has made more people want to come in and get tested.”
Dr. Luke Johnsen, medical director of Metro Healthy Communities, answer[ed] questions about hepatitis during a class Aug. 6 at the organization’s St. Petersburg office.
The latest HIV statistics paint a grim picture for African-American communities in much of the country, with Pinellas County identified by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as extremely high-risk.
Our good friends at Metro Healthy Communities brought the threat of this epidemic to the attention of myself and other south side community leaders, including Deputy Mayor Dr. Kanika Tomalin at a recent small HIV summit. National, state and local statistics were presented that were nothing short of alarming, and we all need to be made aware.
According to the Florida Department of Health, HIV infections are rising in much of Pinellas County, Tampa Bay, and Florida. Metro Wellness and Community Centers is enlisting “My Little PrEPpy” and a free limited run t-shirt to encourage testing and education about PrEP, a daily pill that can reduce exposure to HIV by up to 99%.
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