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admin on Dec 18 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, Housing Works, Puerto Rico
Protesters spill Puerto Rican rum outside an exclusive party to decry Puerto Rico’s AIDS crisis Torruella (in orange hat) and Eddie Fukui participate in the Puerto Rican Rum Party It was a black-tie affair inside the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration holiday party at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night, but [...]
admin on Dec 10 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, Puerto Rico
STUDENTS, AIDS GROUPS TO PICKET PUERTO RICAN GOVERNMENT HOLIDAY PARTY IN D.C., DEC. 12 AIDS activists and Washington, D.C.-area students will be chanting “Puerto Rico AIDS Crisis, Save Lives Now” and handing out informational fliers at a vociferous legal picket outside the “Friends of Puerto Rico” Holiday Reception on December 12 at the National Geographic [...]
admin on Dec 01 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, C2EA, HIV
2007 PREVENTION JUSTICE MOBILIZATION HIV is not just a disease. It’s proof positive of injustice! Please Unite with Us to March & Rally for Prevention Justice! Tuesday, December 4 / 4:30 – 6:00 PM Shining a Light on Gaps in HIV Prevention March & Rally for Prevention Justice Gather across the street from the Hyatt [...]
admin on Dec 01 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, C2EA, HIV, World Aids Day
Today is World AIDS Day – in 2007 it falls on a Saturday. But next year, the real World AIDS Day will be on Election Day. AIDSVote.org is a candidate education and voter education project working to make sure candidates for public office know what it takes to end AIDS, and voters who care about [...]
admin on Dec 01 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, HIV, World Aids Day
World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. AIDS has killed more than 25 million people, with an estimated 38.6 million people living with HIV, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history. Despite recent, improved [...]
admin on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, HIV, Puerto Rico
November 14, 2007 Activists “Die-In” to Save Lives in Puerto Rico Activists, people living with HIV and employees of the New York-based AIDS service organization Housing Works convened earlier today, November 14, in Foley Square in downtown Manhattan to call for immediate federal control of Puerto Rico’s AIDS funding. Other attending organizations included CitiWide Harm [...]
admin on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, Puerto Rico
At a press conference preceding the traffic-stopping protest, activists demanded immediate federal control of AIDS funding in Puerto Rico in order to get medical care and HIV prevention to those in need. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt has the power to instruct the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), the division of [...]
admin on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: AIDS
“The U.S. government has a responsibility to serve all of its people,” said Johnny Guaylupo, an openly HIV-positive Puerto Rican Housing Works employee who was arrested today. “I am happy to go to jail if that’s what it takes for federal officials to wake up.” Guaylupo and others were released this afternoon and are available [...]
admin on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: AIDS
Outraged by U.S. government indifference to the escalating AIDS crisis in Puerto Rico, a dozen AIDS activists stopped traffic for half an hour in downtown Manhattan today to demand immediate federal oversight of Puerto Rico’s AIDS funding. All twelve were arrested at the intersection of Broadway and Worth streets, as a raucous crowd of [...]
admin on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, Puerto Rico
People with Aids in Purto Rico are Dying ! — The Government of Puerto Rico Must take Action to Save Lives ! Puerto Rico Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá and San Juan Mayor Jorge Santini are responsible for the HIV/AIDS health crisis in Puerto Rico: * The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the City of San [...]
