Puerto Rico AIDS Crisis

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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LOCALES – 11/15/2007 Humberto García/EDLP Nueva York — Doce manifestantes fueron arrestados ayer por paralizar el tránsito en la intersección de las calles Worth y Broadway, en el Bajo Manhattan, como parte de un acto de desobediencia civil para llamar la atención sobre la crisis de VIH/SIDA en Puerto Rico. Un nutrido grupo de más [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Puerto Rico-HIV-AIDS Crisis-The Epidemic * There are 3,927,776 people living on the Island of Puerto Rico.1 * 29,092 cumulative AIDS cases of persons of all ages have been reported from the beginning of the epidemic through 2005.2 * In 2005, there were 1,033 new AIDS cases reported on the Island.2 Ranked 10th highest in the [...]

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