The Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board’s (AAIHB) Ninth Circle of Harmony HIV/AIDS Wellness Conference, Indigenous Healing Approaches to HIV AIDS: “Celebrating the Strength and Wisdom of Native Traditions” will be held at the MCM Elegante Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The conference will begin with registration and a Talking Circle the evening of March 18th, 2009 and end at Noon on March 21, 2009. For more information, please contact Marie Kirk at (505) 219-2800 or mkirk@aaihb.org.

Participants will meet at the address below and embark on a walk taking place in recognition of National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The walk be roughly one mile in length. For more information, please contact Kory Montoya at kmontoya@yahoo.com.

NNHAAD will be featured on Native American Calling, which is a live call-in program linking public radio stations, the internet and listeners together in a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. Native America Calling is heard on 52 stations in the United States and in Canada by approximately 500,000 listeners each week. For more information, please visit http://www.nativeamericacalling.com/ or contact Tara Gatewood at tgatewood@nativeamericacalling.com.