POZ December 2001
POZ December 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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*69: AIDS, We’ve Got Your Number - Though it turned 20 this year, HIV barely even took a cake break from punching our digits like a bullying bill collector.
Though it turned 20 this year, HIV barely even took a cake break from punching our digits like a bullying bill collector.
Inside the Issue
Sleeping With The Enemy: Out of the ashes of HIV eradication, the phoenix of immune reconstitution is rising. If early studies are any sign, the right combo of HAART,...
Out of the ashes of HIV eradication, the phoenix of immune reconstitution is rising.
Enter the Dragon
China finally breaks its infamous silence about AIDS. But will the regime loosen its iron fist enough to save millions of lives?
Change of Heart
David Welch, 42, has the heart of a girl -- a 14-year-old one, to be exact.
Name Game: Two years after washington state started tracking HIV cases by name, experts remain split on whether public health or politics is best serve...
Two years after washington state started tracking HIV cases by name, experts remain split on whether public health or politics is best...
Chimp and See
Did polio-vax monkey business start AIDS?
Pop Tart
If San Fran’s Board of Supervisors gets its way, ’80s-era warnings about the dangers of amyl nitrate -- a.k.a. poppers -- will be back.
Milestones
POZ columnist Emily Carter won a Whiting award for her stories, Glory Goes and Gets Some.
Magilla Guerrilla
On October 14, Colombia’s most respected newspaper, El Tiempo, reported that Marxist rebels had forced over 20,000 people to undergo HIV...
Spin Cycle
California’s AIDS Ride hits a wall
Poetry in Motion
Dark and strong at the Poets’ Café
Gifts That Keep Giving
Add some color to your under-the-mistletoe smooches, with MAC Cosmetics’ Viva Glam lipstick.
All Versed Up
Two of the epidemic’s best poets offer new collections this month.
Obit
Gary Norton, 53, lost a 12-year battle with AIDS on October 9.
Let’s Get Naked
After years in the scientific wilderness, HIV vaccine research is finding its way.
Vax for HIVers
The good news about this vaccine-research sea change for people already infected is that many new candidates show promise as treatments, too
States of Emergency
The anthrax anxiety has literally brought home pharma economics in a way AIDS never did.
Bundleland
Schering-plough has long taken heat for packaging, or “bundling,” its hepatitis C treatment, interferon and ribavirin.
Fat Chance
Lush life and lipo? A Mass General study found that spirits can raise cholesterol levels that promote lipo.
Hep C, Hep Do
A German study found that treating hep C with interferon alpha-2b soon after infection can prevent chronic liver disease.
Fed Tape
On October 26, Gilead’s tenofovir (Viread) became the only new anti-HIV drug to win FDA OK this year.
Gift of Life
An HIV diagnosis no longer automatically excludes you from a lifesaving organ transplant.
Publisher’s Letter
Have you ever wanted something specific to eat, but you didn’t know what?
Mailbox
Vagina DialoguesI am going to fight your magazine till death now! How dare you say that I, for examp
Bishop Rainey Cheeks
The Bish is back with succor for the holiday soul
