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“We met doctors from Spain and Switzerland,” Pascual Torres, the Honduras Executive Director wrote. “They visited to introduce themselves as the new regional directors of Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF).”

The Doctors Without Borders directors sought out Siempre Unidos because of our work with vulnerable groups, e.g., people living with HIV and/or in extreme poverty. We serve as a community liaison and advisor to the international aid organization to support its services for people affected by violence and discrimination in Honduras.

Our partnerships with international agencies such as MSF, Direct Relief, and the Pan American Health Organization demonstrate the strength of our reputation as a high-quality and compassionate community-based organization.

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We are grateful for your support of our clinical, advocacy, and outreach services for people living with HIV in Honduras.

Facing stigma and poverty, many of our patients call Siempre Unidos their family.

Thank you for being a part of Siempre Unidos.

We wish you a Happy New Year!

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“Our little neighbors, and their pet, came this morning to pay a visit to our facility and had an informal chat with me,” Pascual Torres, the Honduras Executive Director wrote last week. “They all received bags of candies.”

Situated where the territory of two gangs meet, our San Pedro Sula clinic is an oasis of peace and caring. We receive over 1,200 patient visits from individuals needing non-HIV services such as treatment for flu, high blood pressure, and infections. By serving the local community, our clinic is viewed as a resource for everyone, including gang members, and HIV-positive people can maintain anonymity.

We wish you a wonderful holiday season full of friends, neighbors, and family.

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Medications for high blood pressure and diabetes, antibiotics, and pain relievers fill our pharmacy shelves. When the Covid pandemic hit, our staff and patients were well provisioned with masks. People prefer our services for many reasons, including a reliable supply of medications in a country where government clinics face frequent shortages.

We are grateful to Direct Relief, a Santa Barbara, CA, nonprofit organization providing medical supplies around the globe, for generously donating and shipping us these items for over 10 years. The photo below includes Erick Molina, Direct Relief Senior Manager for Latin America (in the center), during this week’s visit to Honduras.

Thanks to such partnerships, Siempre Unidos brings high-quality care with compassion to people with HIV and who live in extreme poverty.

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Having grown up in the bordos, unincorporated communities living in make-shift huts without sanitation and subject to flooding from the rivers, Gina Meza knew the health challenges her neighbors faced. We met her in 2016 when she was supporting herself through medical school by cleaning and selling large, used coffee bags at marketplaces and peddling candy at the university.

Siempre Unidos donors covered the cost of her personal medical equipment, e.g., stethoscope and oto-opthalmoscope, and provided annual living stipends of $2,000. The Siempre Unidos physician met regularly with her to review her progress and provide support.

Today, Dr. Meza is an intern and working with Siempre Unidos, serving the same communities where she grew up. On her first day, Honduras Executive Director, Pascual Torres, wrote, “I am so proud and thrilled, practically jumping on the clinic roof! She is a breath of fresh air!”

Thank you for helping to bring high-quality HIV and primary care services and advocacy for some of our most vulnerable community members.

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“We at Siempre Unidos have been very busy carrying out all sorts of activities including health fairs, raising HIV awareness, educating, and testing,” Pascual Torres, the Honduran Executive Director and Co-founder writes. “We have held social parades and more in our three geographic sites and communities. See the different photos and activities.”

Thank you for helping to bring high-quality HIV and primary care services and advocacy for some of our most vulnerable community members.

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The Garifuna people, descendants of Africans who escaped slavery and indigenous Caribbean peoples, speak a language that reflects these histories plus the legacies of French, Spanish, and English-speaking colonists.

The Garifuna communities, like other marginalized peoples of African ancestry around the world, have a high HIV burden. With the support of Gilead Sciences and others, Siempre Unidos is expanding its HIV education, testing, and treatment in Garifuna neighborhoods.

To sensitize and educate, the Siempre Unidos staff are drafting educational brochures on HIV in the Garifuna language. To our knowledge, no such materials exist in Honduras. The Honduran Secretary of Health has expressed interest in replicating them.

Thank you for supporting Siempre Unidos and its efforts to bring HIV services to people who are the most vulnerable and disenfranchised.

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