HIV/AIDS in Indian Country

Russ Letica, Board Member and Co-Chair of the WnT Radio Committee, and Natalie Brown, WhispernThunder Board Secretary, will host this informative and educational program about the imporrant topic of HIV/AIDS in Indian Country. 

This program on HIV/AIDS will express opinions concerning the stigma, the level of stigma and reasons for stigma.  WnT will present accurate facts concerning the severity of this disease in our communities as they are today. 

National Native American Awareness Day is March 20th. 

Guests will include

Alyssa Bittenbender, Program Director of the Arizona AIDS Education and Training Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine;

Melvin Harrison, Navajo AIDS Network; and

Native Americans living with HIV/AIDS.

Links of interest are:  http://www.nnaapc.org/news/awareness-day.htm

http://www.ihs.gov/hivaids/index.cfm?module=promo_materials#radioPsa

http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/content.aspx?ID=3026