FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2025 Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic Releases Report on Community Understanding of Syphilis and STI Trends on the Kenai Peninsula HOMER, Alaska — Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic (KBFPC) releases comprehensive new report titled Syphilis & Sexually Transmitted Infections: Baseline Data Compilation and Community Knowledge Assessment, highlighting community insights surrounding…
FROM KBFPC’S JULY 2024 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER “Thanks for helping make the community safer and more informed on health.” – KBFPC Client Friends, You’re busy with July activities, I know, but please take a moment with me to think about literacy. Yes, literacy is the ability to read and write, but also to navigate and use…
FROM KBFPC’S MAY 2024 COMMUNITY NEWSLETTER Friends, I love this time of year. The days are getting longer, there is so much hustle and bustle in preparation for the summer season, and the air smells of possibility. That’s what the new growth on plants and trees reminds me of anyways. This month has meant a…
Syphilis is on the rise in Alaska and poses a very serious health danger. Syphilis is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI, or STD) that can cause harmful complications or death if left untreated. You can have syphilis and not know it Anyone can pass it on, even to your unborn baby It is preventable,…
Opinion: Alaska’s syphilis spike should concern us all KBFPC is partnering with State agencies along with other social service and health organizations to find solutions to Alaska’s syphilis epidemic. The roots of the problem are grounded in health inequity in general and the need for widespread access to reproductive health and sexual health education. Here…