The NBWHP also created self-help groups for front line health care workers, such as orderlies, nurse aides and pratical nurses who because of being invalidated in their role in the medical industrial system may allow prejudices and attitudes to influence their interactions with individuals with HIV/AIDS. The NBWHP conducted these groups as a way to improve support for people with HIV.AIDS. Schalk notes it was unclear whether the NBWHP secured funding to create these groups. The NBWHP used information from Black women with HIV/AIDS to educate and support first-line health workers. The NBWHP also recognized that these first-line workers were often working class people.