POZ December 2013
POZ December 2013
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Features
The POZ 100: Celebrating Unsung Heroes
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
The POZ 100: A-C
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
The POZ 100: D-F
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
The POZ 100: G-H
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
The POZ 100: J-L
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
The POZ 100: M-O
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
The POZ 100: P-R
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
The POZ 100: S-T
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
The POZ 100: V-Z
This year’s POZ 100 is made up of 100 HIV-positive unsung heroes from around the country who are committed to ending the epidemic.
Positive Networks
People living with HIV discuss self-empowerment.
From the Editor
Your Song
This year’s POZ 100 special issue spotlights HIV-positive unsung heroes.
Feedback
Letters-December 2013
The article ’Older and Wiser’ explored issues surrounding long-term survivors of HIV and the difficulties they often face.
The POZ Q+A
Fire in the Blood
A new documentary warns AIDS advocates that the global fight for access to low-cost HIV drugs isn’t over.
POZ Planet
Law of Desire
Adult film performers test HIV positive amid condom rules.
Do Some Men Want to Get AIDS?
Yes. Out magazine and GMHC explain why.
Rocky Road
R.I.P.: Boxing champ Tommy Morrison
Public Knowledge
Judge to FDA: Release some of the PrEP approval documents.
First in the Fight
A New York exhibit remembers early activism.
Remembrance of Things Past
Terrence McNally and Tyne Daly return to Broadway with a new AIDS play called Mothers and Sons.
That ’80s Show
Three AIDS movies in today’s headlines depict yesterday’s epidemic.
Say What? Lee Daniels Edition
Lee Daniels perpetuates HIV stereotypes with a comment on Larry King Now.
Voices
Remembering J.C. Suares
An edited excerpt of Sean Strub’s opinion piece paying tribute to the late founding creative director of POZ.
Care and Treatment
Now Available: New Integrase Inhibitor
U.S. FDA approves Tivicay, the second antiretroviral (ARV) to hit the market in the integrase strand transfer inhibitor class.
‘Quad’ as Effective as Older Options, Fewer Side Effects
New research shows that the once-daily combination therapy Stribild, also known as the ’Quad’ is as effective as both Atripla and a...
Does HIV Make Addiction More Insidious?
Thanks to a protein integral to HIV’s life cycle, cocaine may better ensnare people with HIV into addiction.
TB Preventative Therapy Lowers Deaths by One Third
A six-month course of isoniazid preventive therapy for TB greatly reduces the risk that people with HIV will progress from latent to...
FDA OKs First Rapid Test for Acute HIV
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its approval of the first rapid HIV test.
GMHC Treatment Issues December 2013
How to Beat an Outbreak: Part 1
Research Notes
Prevention: Malaria Vaccine Shows Promise
A small trial shows that a new vaccine is 100 percent effective at preventing malaria.
Treatment: Soybean Compound May Fight HIV
Early research into a compound found in soybeans suggests it may be used as an anti-HIV agent less susceptible to drug resistance.
Cure: Drug-Free Viral Control in Monkeys
Adding the arthritis drug auranofin and the chemotherapy agent buthionine sulfoximine to a five-drug antiretroviral (ARV) regimen appears..
Concerns: Lymphoma Survival Unimproved
American death rates for those with HIV-related lymphoma haven’t budged during the modern era of antiretrovirals (ARVs).
POZ Survey Says
Your Voice
Your responses to POZ’s survey on self-empowerment and advocacy.
POZ Heroes
A Mother’s Love
Sixteen years ago, Florence Ngobeni-Allen, an HIV-positive mother, lost her 5-month-old daughter to complications from AIDS. The experience mo...
