just got back from the DR yesterday...great trip...will write a trip report later
After running into a friend of mine who is very sick with AIDS (SIDA) there in the DR...i couldnt help but wonder and ask about the availability of medication and support for people in the DR who are diagnosed with the virus. My friend is very poor..has no access to health care and by the looks of things will probably be dead in the next year or so.
Hear in NYC...if a friend gets HIV...i do get ****ed because after so many years we should know how to protect ourselves.....but it still happens. Here in the states tho..it is no longer a death sentance as there are many good drug therapies out there. Talking in the DR tho...there seems to be no help at all for these people.
Can anyone recommend any organizations that i can contact either in the DR or in the US or elswhere that I might be able to contact to do some volunteer work for to help gets meds and hiv education in the DR? Seems like the US likes to throw its money all over Africa & Asia...but is doing nothing to help our neighbors in the carib.
This is the first place i am asking about this...so any links or information would be greatly appreciated. Also..feel free to PM me if you do not want to discuss this in the open forums.
Thanks!!! HIV does not have to equal death! and one can be sexualy active (myself for 41 years) and not contract the virus! Hopefully someone here can help point me in the right direction to help make a difference. If not in my immediate friends life...then someone elses
thanks again
jj
After running into a friend of mine who is very sick with AIDS (SIDA) there in the DR...i couldnt help but wonder and ask about the availability of medication and support for people in the DR who are diagnosed with the virus. My friend is very poor..has no access to health care and by the looks of things will probably be dead in the next year or so.
Hear in NYC...if a friend gets HIV...i do get ****ed because after so many years we should know how to protect ourselves.....but it still happens. Here in the states tho..it is no longer a death sentance as there are many good drug therapies out there. Talking in the DR tho...there seems to be no help at all for these people.
Can anyone recommend any organizations that i can contact either in the DR or in the US or elswhere that I might be able to contact to do some volunteer work for to help gets meds and hiv education in the DR? Seems like the US likes to throw its money all over Africa & Asia...but is doing nothing to help our neighbors in the carib.
This is the first place i am asking about this...so any links or information would be greatly appreciated. Also..feel free to PM me if you do not want to discuss this in the open forums.
Thanks!!! HIV does not have to equal death! and one can be sexualy active (myself for 41 years) and not contract the virus! Hopefully someone here can help point me in the right direction to help make a difference. If not in my immediate friends life...then someone elses
thanks again
jj