Anselmo Fonseca & Jose F. Colon makes POZ 100 list

Anselmo Fonseca & Jose F. Colon makes POZ 100 list; PSPS - Defenders of the Rights of Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rico.

December 2010

The POZ 100: 31 to 40

                                                                             

	31. C. Virginia Fields As CEO of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, Fields uses her political wit to champion the rights and needs of her community.
	32. Ingrid Floyd The executive director of Iris House in New York City enables disenfranchised women and their families in Harlem and the Bronx to feel wonderful about themselves in the face of the unthinkable.
	33. Robert Foley The executive director of National Native American AIDS Prevention Center and his team have met with members of Congress, federal stakeholders and funders to ensure that Native concerns are brought forth during program planning and funding, that equitable funding is allocated to Native-specific HIV prevention and treatment projects, and that the National HIV/AIDS Strategy reflects the unique reality of HIV prevention in Native communities.
	34. Anselmo Fonseca The AIDS activist extraordinaire teams with his partner José F. Colón to fight for the rights of positive people in Puerto Rico.
	35. Jane Fowler The founder of HIV Wisdom for Older Women, Fowler has long championed the rights of people aging with HIV. Today, thankfully, an ever-increasing number of us will need her wise words.
	36. Kevin Frost When amfAR founder Mathilde Krim, PhD, placed Frost at the organization's helm, she told him to "take amfAR further." And he did. Frost launched the über successful Treat Asia program that educates communities and health care workers and tracks thousands of positive people in the Pacific Rim. He's never been afraid to utter the (other) C word: The Cure. Once, people scoffed at his bold vision. Today, they try to catch up as amfAR continues to fuel the most promising research avenues to end AIDS.
	37. Robert Fullilove, EdD The associate dean for community and minority affairs and professor of clinical sociomedical sciences and codirector of the Community Research Group at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Fullilove is a bonafide civil rights hero and a champion of minority health. He fights substance abuse, addiction and sexually transmitted infections in urban settings.
	38. Bambi Gaddist, PhD The cofounder and executive director of the South Carolina HIV/AIDS Council in Columbia, Bambi is refreshingly outspoken. She is the first one with her hand in the air when people ask, "Any comments?"
	39. Ronda Goldfein, Esq. The executive director of the AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania, Goldfein battles for HIV-positive people by fighting against stigma, discrimination and ignorance.
	40. Gregg Gonsalves The legendary treatment activist-involved with ACT UP New York, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Treatment Action Group (he was a founding member) and most recently the AIDS and Rights Alliance of Southern Africa-is now a student at Yale University. Known for community-rousing speeches and points of view that ring around the rafters long after he's left the stage, Gonsalves knows how to command the microphone stand.

Paralizado el hospital municipal de San Juan

10 Diciembre 2010

5:44 p.m.

La Unidad Laboral de Enfermería denunció que la falta de personal provocó que no se admitan pacientes

 

Por Inter News Service

La Unidad Laboral de Enfermería y Empleados de la Salud (ULEES) denunció hoy que la falta de personal de enfermería ha provocado que el hospital municipal de San Juan no esté admitiendo pacientes y que se atiendan sólo a enfermos que ya están hospitalizados.
Según la ULEES, el problema afecta a todas las clínicas, así como las salas de maternidad, pediatría, urgencias, partos y operaciones, entre otras.
“Se ha establecido la norma de que sólo a los pacientes que lleguen caminando no se les niegue el servicio en la sala de urgencias, mientras los demás son transferidos inmediatamente a otro hospital”, señaló el sindicato en un comunicado de prensa.
La ULEES informó que el 60 por ciento del personal de enfermería que trabaja en el municipio de San Juan se encuentran bajo contrato con la empresa Quick Radiology, “que tiene a estas trabajadoras sin cobrar sus salarios desde el 1 de noviembre”.
La unión señaló que la empresa alega que si el municipio de San Juan “no les paga, ellos tampoco pueden pagarle a las enfermeras. El contrato de Quick Radiology finaliza el 31 de diciembre.
“Fuentes cercanas a la ULEES indican que el nuevo contrato para proveer servicios de enfermería en la ciudad capital lo tendrá el doctor Rafael Santini, quien alegadamente es primo hermano del alcalde de San Juan, Jorge Santini. El galeno trabajaba en el Centro Más Salud de Hoare y se supone comience sus nuevas funciones el próximo 1 de enero de 2011”, afirma el comunicado.