This article is brief, but telling. It deals with + Navajo living on a reservation & the stigma facing the + people living in this small community. These people are sacrificing their care out of fear of being stigmatized & shunned. All the while the cases of HIV are on the rise, up 20% since 2011.
This community has to deal with it's antiquated ideals about things regarding HIV & homosexuality. If it doesn't, at this rate there won't be very many people on the reservation who aren't +. These people fear being found out & ostracized by their friends & family. They might be family, but they're hardly friends if they'd leave someone over being +.
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