Is the vulnerability of Indigenous Peoples to HIV/AIDS given sufficient attention?

1. Indigenous Peoples and HIV & AIDS

In Botswana, San community members in search for employment opportunities would leave their homesteads and head to the city, sometimes to return infected with HIV. The San community embarked on an awareness initiative in an attempt to curb the rising HIV infection rate and the stigma associated with AIDS.Migration can also place people in situations of  heightened vulnerability to HIV, and presently there are millions of people on the move, internationally. We spoke to Gakemotho Satau, the coordinator of the Trust for Okavango Cultural and Development Initiative and Trevor Stratton from the International Indigenous Working Group on HIV and AIDS, to get a global picture of Indigenous Peoples and HIV/AIDS.

2. Indigenize The Prevention Movement Against HIV and AIDS

HIV advocate Marama Mullen (Ngatiawa Māori), executive director of INA (the Maori, Indigenous, and South Pacific HIV/AIDS Foundation) discusses the HIV/AIDS prevention and awareness network that her organization has fostered among Indigenous communities in the South Pacific.

3. lndigenous Rights Radio News Bulletin 

A short update on current events from around the world on the topic of Indigenous rights.