NNAAPC Publications

NNAAPC has produced a variety of publications, primarily HIV/AIDS specific, that were designed to help educate people in the Native community and the health care providers who serve them. A few of these said publications are listed below. Please contact our organizataion if you wish to request physical copies.

• Addressing Two Spirits in the American Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian Communities
• Circle of life
• Clinician’s Guide: Working with Native Americans Living with HIV
• HIV/AIDS Prevention Early Intervention and Health Promotion

Fact Sheets

• Affordable Care Act & AIDS Fact Sheet
  
• CDC Fact Sheet
• State Profiles
• Kaiser Family Foundation
  

National HIV/AIDS Strategy

• National HIV/AIDS Strategy for the United States
  
• National HIV/AIDS Strategy Implementation Plan
• National HIV/AIDS Strategy Agency Implementation Plans
• National HIV/AIDS Strategy Agency Implementation Update
  

Articles and Reports

The following publications have been put out by various sources (including tribes, academics, governments, and community-based organizations) and include valuable, up-to-date information on HIV prevention. The list will be up dated from time to time, so continue to check back.

• Long-term use of HIV drugs is safe, does not raise risk of death, study shows
  
  Reference Kowalska JD et al. Long-term exposure to combination antiretroviral therapy and risk of death from specific causes: no evidence for any previously unidentified increased risk due to antiretroviral therapy. AIDS 25, online edition, doi: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32834e8805, 2011 (click here for the free abstract).
• HIV Diagnosis and indigenous Peoples
  
• HIV/AIDS among American Indians/Alaska Natives Living in Montana: A descriptive study
  
• The Role of Cognitions in Sexual Risk Among American Indian/Alaska Native Men Who Have Sex with Men
• 2009 CDC HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report (released in 2011)
  
• The Paradox of Respect and Risk: Six Lakota Adolescents Speak
  
• Native Health Underfunded & Promises Unfulfilled: The Importance of Investing in the Indian Health Service
• Elements of Cultural Competence with Native clients

• White Oppression and HIV
• Individual and Partnership-level Characteristics of Two-Spirit Native Americans that May Impact Risk
• factors associated with sexual behavior of Canadian Aboriginal youth
• Building partnerships between indigenous communtieis and universities
• Risk Factors for HIV in Rural SW AI Pop
• 2010 Tribal Public Health Profile: Exploring Public Health Capacity in Indian Country
• Gender-Nonconforming Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: School Victimization and Young Adult Psychosocial Adjustment
• Establishing a Holistic Framework to Reduce Inequities in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs, and Tuberculosis in the United States
• 2009 Sexually Transmitted Diseases Surveillance Report
• I/T/U Are Essential Community Providers
• TECHSex USA White Paper
• Sexual Partner Concurrency and Sexual Risk Among Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender American Indian/Alaska Natives
• HRSA Guide for HIV/AIDS Clinical Care now available online

•  HIV tests ever 3 to 6 months suggested for all sexually active gay men in US, men who have sex with men (MSM)

• Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights, and Realities and Access to Services for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis in Canada

• RWJF Grant Will Help Expand Healthy Schools Program to 30,000 Schools Across the Nation

• Native STAND (Students Together Against Negative Decisions): Evaluating a School-Based Sexual Risk Intervention in Indian Boarding Schools