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Article: Through indigenous eyes: Native Americans and the HIV epidemic.
- Article from:
- Health and Social Work
- Article date:
- February 1, 1999
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Because of our small numbers, our virtual invisibility, and the lack of public health outreach into our communities on almost any level, HIV has run rampant, and there is a real and immediate danger of a sweeping decimation of our People. Without clear information which is culturally sensitive, the combination of fear, ignorance and the resulting stigma threaten to just destroy our already physically fragile communities" (Native American Leadership Commission on Health and AIDS [NALCHA], 1994, p. 47). Comments such as these illustrate the alarm that some Native American people feel about HIV/AIDS. Even more distressing, however, is the fact that other Native Americans ...