Native people are also statistically among the sickest in the nation, with diabetes, tuberculosis, and cardiovascular disease rates well above that of all US races combined (IHS 2008). Rates of sexually transmitted infections are high in Native communities, a disparity that the Centers for Disease Control correlates with poverty and restricted access to health care as well as, potentially, cultural mistrust in health-care–seeking behaviors (CDC 2011b). Native American women as a group have a higher rate of cervical cancer than non-Hispanic white women, although the rates vary by region
