The numbers of HIV and AIDS diagnoses for American Indians and Alaska Natives represent less than 1% of the total number of HIV/AIDS cases reported to the HIV/AIDS Reporting System. However, when population size is taken into account, this population in 2004 was ranked 3rd in rates of AIDS diagnoses, after African Americans and Hispanics.1 The rate of AIDS diagnoses for this group has been higher than that for whites since 1995.2
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HIV/AIDS Among American Indians and Alaska Natives
From Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/aian.htm
American Indian/Alaska Native Profile
From Office of Minority Health
http://www.omhrc.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlID=52
Clinicians Guide: Working With Native Americans Living With HIV
From National Native American AIDS Prevention Center
http://www.aidsetc.org/pdf/curricula/clin_guide_native_am.pdf
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Early Intervention, & Health Promotion: A Self-Study Module for Health Care Providers Serving Native Americans
From National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPCc) and Mountain Plains AIDS Education & Training Center (MPAETC)
http://www.mpaetc.org/downloads/NA_ssm.pdf
American Indian, Alaska Natives Fact Sheet
From National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center (NMAETC)
http://www.nmaetc.org/media/pdf/IndianAlaskaNative.pdf
What are American
Indian/Alaskan Natives' (AI/AN) HIV Prevention Needs?
From the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), University of California, San Francisco
http://www.caps.ucsf.edu/pubs/FS/nativeamerican.php
HIV Transmission and Prevention in Native Americans: Related Resources
From HIV InSite, a project of the UCSF Center for HIV Information
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite?page=kbr-07-04-12
HIV/AIDS Surveillance by Race/Ethnicity (Updated through 2005)
Slide set from the Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/resources/slides/race-ethnicity/index.htm
Native Americans and AIDS
From the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
http://devbehavpeds.ouhsc.edu/assets/pdf/pmm/AIDS.pdf
The Stop Chlamydia! Project
Information from The Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
http://www.npaihb.org/epi/chlamydia/chlam.html
For more resources: National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC) http://www.nnaapc.org/
1
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2004. Vol. 16. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services, CDC: 2005:1–46.
2 CDC. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report. 2003
From HRSA American Indians, Alaska Natives, and HIV/AIDS in the United States
