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Oh no, here comes the Rican with another Puerto Rico related post. This month’s issue of POZ Magazine has an article about the AIDS crisis in Puerto Rico and how it is endangering the lives most in need of critical services.

According to the article, there are 11,000 people living with AIDS on the U.S. colony, and many are being denied access to treatment because they face stereotypes and and massive mismanagement of services. With an AIDS prevalence rate there is almost twice that of the U.S. mainland, people are losing their lives and not enough people seem to care.

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