Are AIDS medications being sent to Haiti along with supplies like food and water?
They’re not. We’re not aware of anybody sending medication, especially for people with HIV. We get reports from people who survived the earthquake that have HIV, people that were on treatment, who say the hospital they were being treated at collapsed. There’s also a shortage of [all] medicine in Haiti, so what we are doing here for AIDS is a direct response — calling all the people living with HIV in the United States that have extra HIV-positive medicine at this time. We need it sealed and not expired. There are many reasons why people with HIV have sealed and unexpired medicine in their medicine cabinet. One is because they’re resistant. Another is they can’t tolerate the medicine and they just happen to have it. We’ve also been calling anybody who has any type of basic antibiotic. We’re asking people to send it to us — we have the team and infrastructure to figure out what works and what doesn’t. You cannot send medicine directly to Haiti, you cannot send it to any other organizatio
