POZ April 2002
POZ April 2002
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Tweedledum and Dumber
Obscene phone calls? Off with their heads!
Inside the Issue
Hip to the Future
The new side effect is bone death. Yes, the meds play a role. But dig deeper -- it might be immune recovery.
High Society
Pristine, progressive Vancouver has a dirty little secret: one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the developed world.
Pride & Prejudice
What makes Thabo Mbeki run? was the question the international AIDS community began asking about the deeply private South African...
Weekend Warrior
Here’s a guide to kicking AIDS out of Africa
Bad Bio-Rad
Who owns HIV? You’ve probably never asked yourself this bizarre question.
Don’t Fence Me In
Pearl Harbor brought the internment of Japanese Americans. Oklahoma City stoked anti-immigrant laws.
War Cries
When Rwanda’s extremist and majority Hutu ethnic group committed genocide on Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994, they left behind a...
Heavy Petting
Dogs were dogged in a UC Davis survey to determine which really is man’s best friend, cat or canine.
Pass the Lube
The makers of Astroglide, Vagisil and ViAmor may not want to market their lubricants as the barebacker’s brands, but they could.
Obit: Lance Loud
The Catholic archdiocese of Davenport, Iowa, tried to get between me and Lance Loud.
Living Spoof
“Condoms...no one’s wearing condoms!” sputters an incredulous Michael (Hal Sparks) in a recent episode of Showtime’s fagship series...
Babes in Tube-Land
On a January episode, ER -- yes, it’s still on -- got hip to the DL when a young black rapper, his “friend” and his girlfriend came in...
Altered States
Can removing, tweaking and reinfusing your CD4 cells allow your immune system to control HIV?
A Tell-All About T Cells
T cell: a white blood cell called a lymphocyte produced by the thymus; central to the first line of immune defense called cellular immunity.
Quick Draw
What a coup it would be if you and your doctor could know after a single week whether your new HAART combination would work over the long...
Get SMART
“Hit early, hit hard” was yesterday’s HAART mantra.
KS Dating
The stigmata of Kaposi’s sarcoma, a blood-vessel cancer, came to define the AIDS look in the ’80s.
Cancer Count
The evidence just keeps mounting that women with HIV develop invasive genital cancers far more often than their neggie sisters.
Media
In January, a Knight-Ridder reporter blanketed the nation with his byline.
Let’s Roll...Back!
Bush has stacked his AIDS council with anti-condom crusaders. Doug Ireland asks if a War on Safe Sex is the new terrorism.
Scumbag Humbug
The HIV community responds to an opinion of Tom Coburn, MD, Bush’s new AIDS advisor.
Editor’s Letter
“Did you get lucky?” gay men ask each other, about coming up a winner or loser in the weekend’s sexual lottery.
Mailbox
Sullivan’s Final ContributionPlease remove me from your list of contributing editors immediately. I
Larry’s Lease on Life
Sean Strub checks in with his old pal Kramer a month after the last angry man became one of the first HIVers to get a new liver.
