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The American Indian Community House HIV/AIDS Program helps Native American communities in four regions of the state to address HIV/AIDS. In Native communities, trauma plays an important role in substance use and risky sexual behaviors that can lead to the transmission of HIV. The HIV/AIDS Program helps Native Americans to address trauma in culturally appropriate ways to reduce their risk for HIV. The HIV/AIDS Program has three separate components:
The Community Educator Network. HIV prevention services are provided through four regional sites across New York State: New York, Akwesasne, Syracuse, and Buffalo. Services include outreach, Individual and group education, and HIV counseling and testing. The program also features Native American Women’s Support Groups at each site to help Native women reduce their risk for HIV.
The Native American Leadership Commission on Health and AIDS (NALCHA). NALCHA is designed to bring together leaders from different Indian communities for discussion of HIV and Native Americans. NALCHA members provide community input through Native community needs assessment activities and policy update sessions. NALCHA also provides community wide HIV intervention through dissemination of HIV awareness messages and media campaigns. NALCHA services are also provided through four regional sites across New York State: New York, Akwesasne, Syracuse, and Buffalo. Visit our Publications & Bulletins page to obtain NALCHA publications.
For more information about either the Community Educator Network or NALCHA, contact the Community Educator in your region:
The Seventh Generation Program provides HIV prevention services to Native American youth ages 8-18 on the Onondaga Nation and in surrounding areas. Older Native youth serve as Peer Educators for groups of younger youth in an after school setting, where they learn age appropriate HIV risk reduction skills and build positive Native identity through Native American cultural activities. Native youth groups also develop media projects, sharing HIV awareness messages with the general Native American community.
- For more information about the Seventh Generation Program, contact the Program Specialist at the Syracuse site: (315) 470-0400. syryec@aol.com.
The AICH HIV/AIDS Program is funded through the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute.
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