Feds turn backs on Puerto Rico AIDS program

[Ian David]

published Wednesday, March 7, 2007

The United States has halted payments to a Puerto Rican AIDS program, forcing clinics to ration medicine for hundreds of HIV-positive poor people and other organizations to cut back on food and other services they provide to patients.

Officials in the island territory blame the FBI for the situation, saying agents conducting a fraud investigation seized documents in a December raid that were needed by clinics in the capital area to get reimbursement for anti-HIV drugs and services they give patients. The law enforcement agency denies the assertion.

Patient advocates blame the San Juan city government and other island agencies, saying the problem is a result of mismanagement in a program that has a history of corruption.

The 21 clinics, which are privately run under the administration of the San Juan city government, say they stopped receiving reimbursement from the United States in late 2006, but the rationing and cutbacks only began in recent weeks as their budgets have started to run low.

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[rainbow4321]

1. Maybe Jenna can pick an HIV + Puerto Rican mom

to write about instead...except once White House/regime editors got done with it there would not be much of a book, it'd be more of a pamphlet.