POZ July 2000
POZ July 2000
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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POZ In Asia
Asia is home to half of the human race -- more than 3.7 billion people -- and the most crowded part of our planet.
POZ In Asia
What DO westerners need to know about Asia and the Pacific?
POZ In Asia (City Profiles)
So far only my wife knows I have HIV.
Inside the Issue
Oh, Suzana!
In Indonesia, PWAs shroud themselves in lies, secrets and silence.
Medicine Masala
Some native ancient healing traditions in Indian may offer new solutions for retrovirals -- for their epidemic and ours.
Southern Exposure
Thailand status as AIDS role model for the developing world is in danger.
Postcards from the Edge
Cambodia faces a catastrophic future.
Mailbox
What a fitting tribute POZ presented in featuring Celia Farber, a most thoughtful and dedicated journalist.
Something Suspect In The Air
American Airlines is once again facing a storm of discrimination charges by HIVers.
IMF’d Up, Man!
HIVers and their allies at the two-day megaprotest here charged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank with forcing...
NEG/POS
Pfizer agreed in April to donate fluconazole for cryptococcal meningitis to South Africa, but said no way to Central American HIVers.
Everybody CAREs
The Ryan White CARE Act is set to expire this fall.
The Doll Factory
This month marks the one-year anniversary of Candice Moench and Kathy Gerus-Darbison’s hitting upon a doll of an idea.
Bubblegum Sex Wars
Just try to find a touchier subject than teen sexuality.
Shout Out
“Gloria Steinhem once paired him with AIDS as the two worst things about New York.”
Security Risk
Four months after a CIA study of the impact of the global AIDS epidemic was released, The Washington Post broke the story in late April...
Fire And Brimstone
Some vulnerable Ugandan believers plagued as deeply by the toll of AIDS as by their country’s civil unrest met a harrowing and fiery end...
Bodies In Motion
Before Plato’s Garage, the itinerary of Campbell’s life read like a trip without a map.
Books
Like Fabulous Hell, Ravelstein is about finding meaning in the face of death.
Smoke and Mirrors
Benjamin SmokeCowboy Booking InternationalOpens July 28 in New York City and Los Angeles, wide relea
Foo For Thought
For those of you who haven’t tuned in to MTV lately, the Foo Fighters are not a posse of intergalactic video-game characters.
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Global Hits
Hoyas’ Helping Hands
Thor Cheston, 21, calls them his “little covert operations.”
On Writing It
One of my proudest achievements is having received the Gregory Kolovakos Award for AIDS Writing for The Healing Notebooks.
Egypt’s Time Is Now
Cairo’s medieval core—with its narrow streets and winding alleys—has remained nearly unchanged since the 10th century.
Milestones
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) announced their new team project.
Dellums For Dollars
Ex-Representative Ron Dellums, a longtime leftist, now stumps for global AIDS funding. Is it altruism? Doug Ireland lifts the veil on his paym...
Bite The Bullet
Dodging a gun-toting nurse and a false prophet, LeRoy Whitfield breaks out of his treatment shell.
It’s Alright, Ma
When your kid’s been an addict and come out alive, HIV can be the toughest letters you’ve ever heard. Lillian Thieman finds forgiveness is a t...
The Lost Day
Stephen Gendin pulls a Proust and goes searching for lost time. He hopes he doesn’t find dementia lurking in a budding grove.
An International Incident
South African president Thabo Mbeki has tapped “AIDS dissidents” in charting policy on the raging epidemic.
Getting Testy
Bend over, Viagra! The new testosterone gel may soon have even frat boys cruising the black market to take it like a man.
Herb Of The Month
Astragalus
Holy Hormones
The sanest way to testoserone up.
Cramping Your Style
Menstruation a pain in the pelvis? Curse not, our dispensary-loving Nursie is staggering your way.
Comfort Zone
I used to laugh at the Metamucil ads with the old folks who wanted to stay “regular.”
All The Tea In China
Can Traditional Chinese Medicine pass the muster of American AIDS research?
Smear No Evil
Marlene Diaz’s abnormal Pap doesn’t spell cervical cancer, but is cause for concern—and definitely follow-up testing.
East Meets West
Get to know your fellow HIVers in Asia—they’re Web wired.
$64K Question
Can a low (OR NO) viral load make an HIVer less (or non-) infectious?
7.17.85: Rock Our World
Rock Hudson was the first person ever to get AIDS—at least according to the media.
