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A bone marrow transplant is a life-saving procedure for people with blood illnesses or cancers, but it’s harder for Alaska Native and mixed-race people to find matches because they’re underrepresented in the donor database. Advocates are hosting a drive next week to connect an Anchorage 6-year-old with a matching donor.
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- By Claire Stremple -- KTOO
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Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver pre-recorded remarks at the National Indian Health Board (NIHB) Tribal Public Health Summit on Wednesday, May 11, where she will speak to the ongoing desperate outcomes of Native women and their maternal health journey and what she and Administration are doing to address it.
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- By Native News Online Staff
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In the Fargo-Moorhead metro area, a community of about 250,000 people spanning North Dakota and Minnesota, there is only one Native American mental healthcare provider. Her name is Whitney Fear.
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- By Kelsey Turner
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Indigenous women from the Chiapas Nich Ixim Midwives Movement demanded that they be respected and allowed to practice midwifery freely, without being criminalized.
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- By Isaín Mandujano - Proceso
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Pro-choice advocates say overturning Roe v. Wade would place greater strain and hardship on Native American women in South Dakota, who are twice as likely as other races to be the victims of sexual assault, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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- By Stu Whitney - South Dakota News Watch
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The Navajo Nation has officially declared the month of May as “Ńtsáhakees Silah’igii Baa ‘Áhayá – Navajo Nation Mental Health Awareness Month," in a proclamation issued Monday by Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer.
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The U.S. Senate on Thursday unanimously approved a two-year extension of an act giving compensation to people who were exposed to radiation from atomic weapons testing and uranium mining. The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA), which is set to expire in July, provides one-time benefit payments to those who have been diagnosed with cancer or other diseases relating to radiation exposure. The extension now awaits approval by the House.
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- By Kelsey Turner
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Health-care organizations that support Native Americans living in urban areas receive minimal federal funding, even though more than 70 percent of the U.S. Native population lives in metropolitan areas.
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- By Julia Shapero and Michael Korsh
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On Monday, April 25, the Indian Health Service (IHS) announced it had received $5 million to fund the Ending the HIV Epidemic Initiative. It is the first time IHS has received funding for this initiative, supporting work toward the elimination of HIV and hepatitis C in Indian Country.
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Last Friday, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) traveled to Church Rock on the Navajo Nation, by invitation from the Navajo Nation and Redwater Pond Road Community members to discuss the impacts of uranium mining. NRC officials heard, for the first time in history, of the health and environmental impacts caused by uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.
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- By Darren Thompson
