“RezBall: a docu-poem” is a more lyrical piece than most linear narrative films. It was screened at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco and, from that, it was invited to be screened as part of the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian - Native American Film+Video Festival as well as several other venues.
It was shot on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, home of some of our very own Stanford students!
(Mayetta, KS) On March 20, 2013 the Prairie Band Potawatomie Nation along with the Kansas AIDS Education & Training Center sponsored an event for National Native American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The event took place at the Tribal Casino in Mayetta, KS. Around ninety participants were treated to a delicious dinner and presentations on the impact of HIV/AIDS in the Native American community both nationally and in the state of Kansas. The presentations included information on the prevention and treatment of HIV, services available in Kansas, and the impact of stigma and prejudice on HIV prevention and care. The participants included area Tribal members as well as health care providers from the area.
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By Harlan Pruden
From AIDS.gov
March 20, 2013
March 20th is National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day to raise awareness of the terrible toll that HIV/AIDS continues to take on Native American populations. HIV/AIDS is a crisis that affects many American Indians and Alaska Natives, but particularly Two-Spirit individuals, who often experience stigma and discrimination in both Native and mainstream society.
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Indian Country Today Staff Writer
March 21, 2013
Yesterday, on March 20, the 7th annual National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day—Native people across the U.S. challenged individuals, health providers and government agencies to increase HIV testing in American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities. The push stems from recommendations by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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The incidence of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection is 2 to 7 times greater among U.S. American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) and Canadian Aboriginal populations than in the general population, according to a recent paper by Drs. Julia Rempel and Julia Uhanova of the University of Manitoba. At U.S. Indian Health Service facilities, there was a four-fold increase in the number of hospitalizations due to acute HCV infection from 1995 to 2007. In their paper, Rempel and Uhanova summarize the extent and impact of HCV infection on Indigenous Peoples in North America, their risk factors for HCV infection, rates of chronic infection, disease progression, treatment outcomes, and comorbidities, such as HIV infection, diabetes, and alcohol use.
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