POZ December 1999
POZ December 1999
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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The AIDS Decade: The 99 Greatest Moments of the ’90s
As the new millennium turns, many of the contributions of PWA self-empowerment and AIDS activism will prove lasting.
Inside the Issue
Inside Agitator
Gary Indiana takes a psychedelic trip down memory lane with Ferd Eggan, LA’s top AIDS policy maker.
Happy Holidays?
Project Inform founder Martin Delaney explains why the first thing on your wish list should be Structured Treatment Interruptions.
It’s 10 O’Clock. Do You Know Where Your Meds Are?
If your dream AIDS drugs have become the regimen from hell, Julie Boler can tell you where to go from adhere.
Publisher’s Letter
I tested positive in March 1994--right when the first issue of POZ hit the newsstand.
Mailbox-December 1999
Before I read the life story of former officer Steve Yurcik, my perception of police officers was negative.
Your Money or Your Life
You hear a lot about how people commit crimes because of their childhood,” said Johnny Bonds, a former Houston Police Department detective.
Mass Appeal
Organizations in Rio de Janeiro successfully lobbied in the Brazilian government to reverse its decision to cut funding for AIDS meds.
STARHS Search
This fall the CDC launched its “STARHS Strategy”—an HIV test designed to differentiate “old” infections from “new” ones.
Parallel Universe
Delegates at September’s 11th International Conference on AIDS and STDs in Africa declared AIDS an official “state of emergency."
Arts
If you’re an HIVer too busy surviving to reflect on life, get Yoga and the Quest for the True Self (Bantam Books).
Syph ’N’ Spin
A slow-news end of summer had mainstream newspapers falling back on oldhabits to make new headlines.
Hot Copy
Where’s HIV on the radar screens of just-out-of-the-gate Honey and Big Apple black-press perennial The Amsterdam News?
Attention, Shoppers
Chasing the perfect present? Check this list twice.
Where Did HIV Come From?
The August discovery that the frozen body of a 15-year-old male prostitute who died of Kaposi’s sarcoma at St. Louis City Hospital...
The Spirit of St. Louis
Jessica Forsyth is frantically searching for mints. It’s not just because she’s four months pregnant and craving.
Splendor in the Pines
The so-called party of the millennium in New York’s Fire Island Pines started under a cloud of controversy.
Keeping the Faith
In the dim, hushed infinity that is the interior of New York City’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, a quiet bridging of the divide...
Milestones
San Francisco’s Godfather Service Fund sleeps with the fishes after 15 years of providing buddy volunteers for PWAs.
Tenement Dreams
Martin Wong’s New York love story in paint
10,000 Hemophiliacs
Those who got HIV through bad blood are still trying to be compensated for government negligence. Doug Ireland finds that Clinton doesn’t feel...
Just Eat It
Emily Carter wants a cheeseburger and coffee--and hold the health lecture. She’s in touch with her inner nutritionist.
Food Fight
Leroy Whitfield goes on a fruitless search for good food in the ghetto, and realizes he’s been red-lined.
The Hit List
Insurance companies are forcing more and more HIVers to choose between losing their policy or dropping their doctor.
Compound Interest
A mom-and-pop pharmacy finds a do-it-yourself way around the high price of a new hep C drug
When to Treat Hep C?
Should I start the alpha interferon/ribavirin combination (such as Rebetron) approved for HCV treatment?
Hep Help Hurray!
Make your sick liver shine with ancient wisdom and a dose of cleansing herbs
The Scoop on Poop
Below-the-belt traffic jams can put a kink in your fast-lane style. Nurse gets things moving again.
Could You Have HAD?
Stephen Gendin passes an early-warning test for HIV-associated dementia. He may be nuts, but he isn’t crazy.
Shelf Life
People with AIDS are much more susceptible to the dangers of food poisoning than “healthy” Americans.
Vintage Gallo
The visionary virus-hunter has his own institute and a trailblazing strategy to conquer AIDS
Days of Wine and Doses
A toast to your health! But red wine only, please.
Less Is More
Researchers may have found a way to make one of the newest antiretrovirals even more effective.
Cutting Corners
11 little-known ways to save on your medical bills
A Day Without
Sometime in the mid-’80s it became painfully clear that AIDS was killing off the arts by killing off artists.
Catching Up With
(POZ October/November 1994)
