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August 16, 2006
IAC: Native Groups Face Crippling HIV
August 16, 2006—HIV rates in the world’s aboriginal populations, already high, are rising still further, possibly even risking their communities’ survival, according to a presentation by Dr. Clive Aspen from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Aspen says high poverty rates, rampant depression and poor housing and health care increase drug use and risky sex.