Is the 58th Avenue Emergency Shelter an HIV/AIDS treatment center?
No. There are no medical treatments on site. Only HIV/AIDS positive individuals who are asymptomatic may be referred to this facility. Q Whom do you serve? A: Adults needing simple emergency shelter owing to various life hardships. These are persons referred by the City of New York Human Resources Administration, and others. Look around the room now, the faces you see. Please remember that some of them, if befallen with problems some day, could be located temporarily at the 58th Avenue facility. Queens Alliance Vice President and Board of Directors member Yolanda Martin-Garibaldi said that she was unaware of the letter although she she was at the July 1 meeting where it was handed out.” “That was a letter sent by the attorney. We can’t say that there are HIV-positive clients. I wouldn’t do that.” A later version of the letter omitted the sentence “Only HIV/AIDS positive individuals who are asymptomatic may be referred to this facility.” But the damage had already been done and the lett
