http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com Documenting the current Aids Crisis in Puerto Rico 2007 Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:26:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/12/18/protesters-spill-puerto-rican-rum-outside-an-exclusive-party-to-decry-puerto-ricos-aids-crisis/ 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 ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/12/10/students-aids-groups-to-picket-puerto-rican-govt-holiday-party-in-dc-dec-12-07/ 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 ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/12/01/2007-prevention-justice-mobilization/ 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 ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/12/01/c2ea-alert-in-2008-world-aids-day-will-be-election-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 ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/12/01/world-aids-day-december-1st-2007-today/ 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 ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/11/15/activists-%e2%80%9cdie-in%e2%80%9d-to-save-lives-in-puerto-rico/ AIDS Activists Arrested During Protest In Manhattan ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/11/15/aids-activists-arrested-during-protest-in-manhattan/ 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 ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/11/15/arrestos-en-protesta-por-sida-en-pr-el-dario-ny/ 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 ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/11/15/traffic-stopping-protest-nyc-111407/ In December, the FBI raided four San Juan Health Department offices, freezing millions of U.S. Ryan White CARE Act funds intended to help people with HIV/AIDS. The Puerto Rican Health Department claims there is no longer an AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP) waiting list for medications, but advocates have documented hundreds ... http://puertoricoaidscrisis.com/2007/11/15/the-lies-from-the-puerto-rican-health-department/