Puerto Rican community based organizations, patients living with HIV/AIDS and medical providers need your support in urging HRSA to take immediate action to address medical, social service and housing shortages caused by local and Commonwealth government "inaction." Patient advocates estimate there are 131 patients on the "waiting list" but definitive data is hard to come by.

Agencias de base comunitaria, pacientes viviendo con VIH/SIDA y proveedores de salud en Puerto Rico necesitan tu apoyo para solicitar al HRSA a que tome una acción inmediata para resolver los problemas de restricción del servicio de salud, servicio social y de vivienda; todo esto causado por la pasividad de autoridades de gobierno locales. Defensores de los derechos de los pacientes estiman que existen 131 de ellos que están en la lista de espera y que su futuro es incierto.

Read letter sent from the Puerto Rican Community to Dr. Deborah Parham on January 24, 2007 [click here]

Read letter sent by the Latino Commission on AIDS to Dr. Deborah Parham on February 6, 2007 [word] [pdf]

Read response letter from Dr. Parham to the Latino Commission on AIDS on February 22, 2007 [click here]

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