POZ April 2001
POZ April 2001
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Geography Lessons
With AIDS meds costing all the tea in China, why are they so cheap in India? Fluconazole’s no fluke.
Inside the Issue
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Trouble
The black emergency, new greenbacks and lots of red tape
Cold Sore Comfort
That pesky herpes-simplex virus may pack an extra punch for HIVers, but knockdown drugs can keep outbreaks at bay.
THE BIZ OF AID$
Dealing with AIDS -- and AIDS Inc. -- isn’t fun and games. Here’s a practice round for the real thing.
Living Large on Small Change
Waver Lynn Franklin
O Pioneer!
Or how a fired-up dental hygienist turned his walking papers into marching orders.
Going Dental
It’s enough to give the tooth fairy a cavity.
Vax Attack
After spending a decade in a news hole, developments in vaccine R&D are replicating faster you can say “1 billion infected worldwide.”
¡La Emergencia!
They say that all politics is local, and this winter New York City’s Latino community proved that.
Monette & Merrill
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by AIDS, and Loss Within Loss is our unique “Howl.”
Normal, New Jersey
With a tragic accident at its center, Normal Boys reflects how those living in the shadow of AIDS must find a way for sexuality to coexist..
Briefs
Make room on your bookshelf during spring cleaning.
Milestones
Gary Bonasorte, 45, a playwright and founder of the Community Research Initiative on AIDS, died November 9 of AIDS-related lymphoma.
Quickies
Frosh Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) won a seat on the elite Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Money Pit
If your bills are outpacing your CD4 count, Becky Minnich has the answer to the health-wealth equation.
Cryptic ’Script
Owing in part to the famously illegible chicken scrawl of many physicians, pharmaceutical foul-ups are on the rise.
Don’t Meth Around
Anti-heroin and anti-HIV meds get along about as well as Mariah and Whitney -- hardly at all.
AAT Ease
Wouldn’t it be poetic justice if the blood in which HIV swims turned out to be the source of a major new weapon against it?
Two Strikes
It’s double-whammy time for the non-nuke nevirapine (Viramune).
LTNP? UB2
Can drugs control HIV sans drugs? Bruce Walker shoots a vaccine into the sky.
Is N-9 Deep-Sixed?
The spermicide is getting a lot of attention these days -- and none of it good. Julie Hantman does the math.
Action Zero
AIDS Action’s ex-head blasts “The National Voice on AIDS” as a lobby that lip-services PWAs.
Mary MAC’d
For Leroy Whitfield, there’s something about Mary J. Blige. But is she using her star power for the people?
Murphy’s Law Breaker
Shots in the Dark, an AIDS-vaccine saga, has it all: mysteries and scandals, best intentions and worst-case scenarios.
Editor’s Letter
“The primary goal of anyone working in AIDS who cares about PWA’s should be to lose their job,” screams the faded activist broadside from...
Mailbox
The January 2001 cover image and accompanying “manifesto” by Martin Delaney are intriguing.
04.09.84 The Waters of Babylon
Puritanical, self-loathing gays vs. suicidal advocates of extreme sex: Much mud was slung in the San Francisco bathhouse wars of 1984.
Conflicts in Pharmaland
It takes a lot to be an informed consumer in the age of combination therapy.
