South Carolina Code Section 44-29-180 (A) requires schools to maintain records of vaccinations or immunizations.

Everyone deserves a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Commercial tobacco products negatively impact communities and cause health disparities.  Commercial tobacco products are products sold in retail outlets and are different from the traditional tobacco that is used by Tribal communities for sacred, spiritual, or medicinal purposes.  Learn more about traditional tobacco from the National Native Network.  

Smoking and COVID-19

Smoking tobacco may increase the risk of serious complications from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Now is a good time to quit for keeps. Call 1-800-QUIT-NOW or enroll online for free help.

In early spring 2022, with reports growing about mpox cases internationally, the DHEC Division of Acute Disease Epidemiology (DADE) staff began to follow updates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In May of 2020, the CDC issued a health alert regarding a positive mpox case in Massachusetts and DADE shared it through DHEC’s Health Alert Network (HAN).

Cancer Registry Data Standards & Reporting

NOTE: SC Central Registry will not be able to accept cases in V24 format until  mid-March. If there are further delays, we will notify facilities. Facilities are encouraged to begin 2024 cases in V23, but must be submitted in V24.

Healthcare- Associated Infections in South Carolina Healthcare Facilities

This report contains data from January 2017 through June 2017

All reports are in Adobe PDF format. Download the free viewer.

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Vision Statement

Our vision is a South Carolina free of new cases of HIV, STDs, Viral Hepatitis and Substance Use Disorders

FREE STD/HIV testing on April 11 at most local health department clinics. Please call 1-855-472-3432 to schedule an appointment or click here for a listing of local health departments.

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