POZ June 2012
POZ June 2012
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Features
The POZ Army: How We End AIDS Together
This summer, thanks to a rare confluence of events, the HIV/AIDS community will have an extraordinary opportunity to help save more lives.
Criminal Injustice
HIV criminalization laws do little to stem the epidemic or protect public health. Instead, they often backfire and discourage people from bein...
From the Editor
Reignite the Fight
When exactly did those of us living with HIV stop fighting for our lives?
Feedback
Letters- June 2012
You communicated the heart and soul of Joseph’s House in your article.
The POZ Q+A
Uncommon Threads
Julie Rhoad leverages the power of the AIDS Memorial Quilt to usher in a new era of AIDS advocacy. (Watch video.)
What You Need to Know
A Graduate Degree in Condoms
Not surprisingly, the banana method—you know the one used in sex education classes to teach students how to properly put on a condom—is...
The Normal Heart on Tour
Following its Tony Award-winning Broadway debut in 2011, The Normal Heart, a semiautobiographical 1985 play by Larry Kramer, founder of ACT UP...
A Bang for Your Buck
Teenage women are less likely to use condoms if their primary source of spending money comes from their boyfriends.
The Odds May Not Be in Your Favor if You Don’t Know Your Status
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are 1.2 million people with HIV in the United States and that there...
Further Adventures in the Origin of AIDS
Mystery of where AIDS came from solved? Not so fast.
POZ Survey Says
What Will You Do to End AIDS?
We asked you what you’d be willing to do to end the epidemic, and your responses are below.
What Matters to You
The Implementation of the Affordable Care Act
In March, the Supreme Court heard six hours of testimony regarding the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act..
Treatment News
Chasing the Cure
Crowds flooded the “pathways toward a cure” session at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle...
More Black Women Die From AIDS
In the United States, HIV-positive black women are twice as likely as their white counterparts to die of AIDS.
Can HIV-Positive People Get the Shingles Vax?
Since 2006, a vaccination has been available for shingles, the painful skin and nerve damage caused by the chickenpox virus (varicella zoster,...
Drop Condoms on the Red Carpet, Not in Criminal Court
We applauded when actor Zac Efron let a condom fall out of his pocket onto the red carpet at the premiere of his movie Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax in...
GMHC Treatment Issues June 2012
The State of ADAP: Improvements and stresses continue
Comfort Zone
Mobile Health
Keeping track of the intricacies of your health can sometimes feel like a full-time jo
POZ Heroes
The Artist
He never imagined it would lead to the creation of the most iconic slogan of the AIDS movement.
