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Advancing HIV/AIDS Prevention in Native Communities Exit Disclaimer
This project is funded by CDC for five years to provide capacity building
assistance (CBA) to Native communities, Tribal Health Departments, State Health
Departments, other CDC funded CBAs and organizations serving Native Americans
(defined as American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians). Their directive
is to assist communities who are providing HIV/AIDS related services to increase
their capacity for HIV/AIDS prevention.
Alaska Native Health Board Exit Disclaimer
Alaska
Native Health Board HIV/AIDS Project. The Alaska Native Health Board (ANHB) provides
capacity-building assistance to Native villages, communities, and organizations
throughout Alaska for HIV prevention. Site includes contact information and program
descriptions of ANHB member organizations and “Hot
Links,” links to the most important health issues facing Alaska Natives.
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANMC) Exit Disclaimer
The Alaska Native Tribal Health
Consortium is a tribally managed and operated nonprofit organization responsible
for providing certain statewide health services for Alaska Natives. In particular
their HIV/AIDS program cares for many patients across Alaska including remote
villages and lands. The HIV/AIDS Clinic and staff are located both in and near
the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage, Alaska.
The American Indian Community House (AICH) Exit Disclaimer
A
501(c) (3) not-for-profit organization serving the health, social service, and
cultural needs of Native Americans residing in New York City. In 1991, AICH instituted
the HIV/AIDS Project to provide HIV related services through outreach, referral
and case management. Site features calendar of events, descriptions of AICH services,
and resource list including Native American Leadership Commission on Health & AIDS
(NALCHA) News.
Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP)
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The
Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) and the Texas / Oklahoma AIDS
Education Training Center (TOAETC) are collaborating to provide training for
health professionals and health care providers. The training will introduce
health providers to basic HIV/AIDS information, lay the groundwork for recruitment
of clinicians and other health care personnel for preceptorships, and begin data
collection or training needs specific to health care in hospital and clinic settings. Additionally,
the partnership will assess the training needs of the providers, identify health
professionals and provide an in-depth training to identify individuals at risk
for HIV. To provide HIV/AIDS education and healthy awareness information
to Native Americans with a special emphasis on Native American youth in coordination
with Native American communities, tribes, tribal colleges, Native American youth
programs, AAIP physicians, and other HIV/AIDS health care providers.
Call
Upon Your Spirit of Courage Exit Disclaimer
An HIV prevention media campaign for AI/AN developed by the North Dakota Department
of Health. Includes radio spots, brochures, newspaper ad, video.
Kauffman and Associates
(KI)
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IHS
Contractor funded through Minority AIDS Initiative proposal from the IHS Division
of Behavioral Health and in support of the Indian Health Service Director’s
three health initiatives. Execute Behavioral Health HIV/AIDS regional trainings,
in collaboration with the IHS HIV/AIDS Principal Consultant, the Office of Urban
Indian Health Programs, HRSA, SAMHSA, NIH’s Office of AIDS Research and
the National Minority AIDS Education and Training Center.
Health
Resources on AI/AN– National Library of Medicine
HIV/STD Prevention
Guidelines for Native American Communities
These guidelines were jointly produced by the Rural Center for HIV/AIDS Prevention
(RCAP) and the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAPPC) in 2004.
The guidelines provide background and technical information specific to working
with Native American communities to prevent HIV/AIDS.
Indigenous
Peoples Task Force
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Indigenous
Peoples Task Force (formally Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force) is a
501(c) 3 non-profit organization. The vision is to "Strengthen
and Enhance the Health and Education of Native People". We also provide
education services to prevent the transmission of HIV and to provide direct services
to Native Americans and their family members living with HIV.
Intertribal Council of
Arizona (ITCA)
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The Regional STD/HIV/AIDS Prevention Program (RSHAPP) formed in 1989 by the
ITCA to respond to the increasing HIV/AIDS disparity among American Indian tribes
in Arizona, Utah and Nevada. In 2004, the RSHAPP transitioned into a national
program (NSHAPP) with the acquisition of funding through the CDC making it a
national HIV capacity building assistance (CBA) provider.
Native American Community Health
Center (NACHC)
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Established to provide primary health care, behavioral health and ancillary
services to the urban, non-reservation Native Americans residing within the greater
metropolitan Phoenix area.
Native American Women’s
Health Education Resource Center (NAWHERC)
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Provides
health education materials for a variety of health issues including HIV/AIDS.
Located on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, NAWHERC was the first
resource center located on a reservation in the US. Site includes action alerts.
National Council of Urban
Indian Health (NCUIH)
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Advocating for quality, accessible healthcare for American Indians and Alaska
Natives living in Urban communities.
Native Health Databases
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The University of New Mexico sponsors these two online databases: The Native
Health History Database and the Native Health Research Database. They contain
bibliographic information and abstracts of health-related articles, reports,
surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care
of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations. The databases
provide information for the benefit, use, and education of organizations and
individuals with an interest in health-related issues, programs, and initiatives
regarding North American indigenous peoples.
National Indian Women's Health
Resource Center
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Administers
the HIV/AIDS Health Promotion and Education Cooperation Agreement Project which
is funded by the Office of Minority Health. The goal of this
project is to raise awareness and educate American Indian families of the risk
factors associated and contributing to the contraction of HIV/AIDS by providing
culturally appropriate health education materials and trainings on how to reduce
an individual and communities risk of becoming infected.
National Native American AIDS Prevention
Center (NNAAPC)
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To address the impact of HIV/AIDS on American Indians, Alaska Natives, and
Native Hawaiians through culturally appropriate advocacy, research, education,
and policy development in support of healthy Indigenous people.
National STD/HIV/AIDS
Prevention Program (NSHAPP)
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A project of the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona. It is CDC-funded national
capacity building assistance (CBA) provider that delivers targeted CBA services
to American Indians/Alaskan Native/Native Hawaiians, State Health Departments,
community based organizations (CBO) and local Community Planning Groups (CPG)
across the United States.
Navajo AIDS Network
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Serves as a volunteer organization that provides unique, culturally appropriate
and carefully constructed approaches to HIV prevention services around the Navajo
Nation.
Northwest Portland Indian Health
Board
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"In A Sacred Manner We Shall Live" --
Project Red Talon (PRT) is funded through a cooperative agreement with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). PRT is responsible for providing HIV/STD
prevention education, training, technical assistance, capacity building, and
resource materials to federally recognized American Indian tribes in Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Site includes overviews of major health
issues/concerns facing American Indians, Tribal profiles, resource list and information
about the Portland Area Indian Health Service Institutional Review Board.
Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS Exit
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(Formerly Body Positive) continues commitment
to building awareness locally and regionally. It deals in areas of research,
prevention, education and wellness for people affected by HIV/AIDS. This nonprofit
organization delivers all three services in what it coins as an "individual
health, individual help" model.
It provides the public with knowledge to prevent this disease while providing
critical resources to help individuals live long and well with HIV. Since inception,
the organization has grown in scope to address the shift in reported cases of
HIV/AIDS that have erupted among minority women, adult men as well as youth.
The
Tribal BEAR Projects
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A project of the Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center (AETC). Tribal
BEAR (Building Effective AIDS Response) Project provides tribal clinics with
HIV/AIDS trainings. In collaboration with the Salish Kootenai College of the
Flathead Reservation in Montana and the South Puget Intertribal Planning Agency
in Washington State, it works with tribal health clinics to build HIV Response
Teams. They bring together multidisciplinary healthcare workers to provide comprehensive
health care to AI/AN with HIV/AIDS. The Tribal BEAR Project also brings together
resources, both on and off the reservation.
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