POZ December 2002
POZ December 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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Baby Love
Once having HIV dashed hopes of motherhood--giving your baby the virus or leaving her an orphan was unthinkable.
Inside the Issue
Fuzeon Fever
The Great White Hope: defusing fact and fiction
Wash ’n’ Bear
Daddy’s fishies hit the spin cycle
Adoption Option
How it’s possible, HIV-style
Make It a Date
In 1997, Visual AIDS added a subtle set of parentheses to Day With(out) Art.
Beijing Surprise
China backs down to a global backlash, freeing “disappeared” AIDS activist Wan Yanhai.
Apocalypse Now
Sick of hearing about AIDS in Africa? Relax, here comes the next wave?
Loan Shark
The World Bank recently showed tough love concerning Zambia’s ambitious new AIDS policies.
Fund Frisk
A website devoted to discouraging new federal dollars for abstinence-only education is the latest to feel the Republican chill.
A Tempest in a T Cell
David Ho’s big-news “breakthrough” sparks a research-rivals smackdown
Slim Picks
The focus on lipo’s emotional toll may prod insurers to pay up
Fat Skinny
Add blubber to the list of HIV’s hiding places.
Break Time
Had HIV for more than a few months before starting HAART?
Straight Forward
From pill talk to pillow talk, Atlanta’s Pos Hetero Summit was serious fun
Condoms Inc.
The planet is low on latex.
Steppin’ Positive
Free or not, why an “Anonymous” for HIVers, who can’t exactly “quit” a virus?
Milestones
Catherine Hanssens departed Lambda Legal Defense in September after eight years as AIDS Project director.
Cinema Variety
Curl up with these strippers, hippies and divas to catch the latest viral-video wave
Daddy’s Dearest
When Lindsey Alexander of Dubuque, Iowa, was 7, she learned that her father was HIV positive.
Gift Rap
They didn’t exactly sit on our lap, but these friends of POZ happily whispered in our ear:
’Tis the Season
Before you inhale those latkes or down that eggnog, give a gift that boosts the budgets of AID
Publisher’s Letter
I renewed my driver’s license in Rhode Island in 1991 when I was 20 years old.
Mailbox
I do not agree that parents should be forced by courts to put their children on HAART [“Parent Trap,” September 2002].
In Vogue
How Do I Look?
Star Power
Krandall Kraus’ Christmas Poems (AttaGirl Press, $17.95) is perfect for the aspiring writer in your life—all the better if that’s you.
Soreheads
Where there’s syphilis, there’s HIV.
Saving It
U.S. teens have gone from haste to chaste over the past decade, giving up the grand slam for less-contact sports, according to a CDC study.
Getting Cheeky
Back on the first season of Sex and the City, good girl Charlotte confided in her gal pals that her new boyfriend wanted anal sex.
Fix Is In?
Here in THE LAND of milk and honey, the rate of HIV transmission from moms to babes has dropped to u
Say What?
“Many victims of sexual harassment believe what is said about them, and they become very promiscuous.”
Cash Flown!
River Huston didn’t care much for money until she had some, and she wasn’t afraid of dying until she had a future to lose.
Full-Frontal Face
What issue packs the community center? Facial wasting. Joe Westmoreland reports.
Wisdom Of The Ages
Kansas City star Jane Fowler lights 67 birthday candles and a flame under fellow graying HIVers
Neg/Pos
In a John’s Hopkins study of 15-30-year-old IV drug users who tested positive for hepatitis C, fewer than one-fifth quit sharing needles...
