admin on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Puerto Rico
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 de cien personas, [...]
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: Uncategorized
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 of people who are still [...]
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 [...]
admin on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: Uncategorized
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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 Juan have [...]
admin on Nov 15 2007 | Filed under: AIDS, Puerto Rico
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 [...]
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