Navajo Nation confronts HIV and AIDS
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Elsie Smith was diagnosed with HIV and didn't know what it was. Some other Navajo learn of HIV and AIDS upon diagnosis. Others believe it's a white man's disease. Doctors, meanwhile, must explain the virus and disease in round-about ways because, in traditional Navajo culture, to speak of death is to bring it about.