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9:06 am
Thu February 2, 2012

Navajo Struggle With Stigma Of AIDS

Credit Laurel Morales
Kevan Scott, 22, learned he was HIV-positive two years ago. He moved to Mesa, Ariz. from Page, Ariz. soon after the diagnosis.

For people of the Navajo Nation, AIDS has long been thought of as a white man’s disease; an illness that struck others, off of the reservation.

But over the last decade, the number of new HIV infections among Navajos has doubled. And something else that’s new: AIDS is now very much on the reservation itself, which means Navajos are infecting Navajos.

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