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 [...]
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, 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
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
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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