POZ February 1998
POZ February 1998
In every issue of POZ, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Marked Man
To Activism’s Einstein, E=HIV
Inside the Issue
Warts and All
If you thought teenage acne was tough, HIV has an unsightly surprise in store for you
Cracker Jack
A downtown artist mixed mediums and metaphors
Names Will Never Hurt You?
Just like Poltergeist, mandatory HIV name reporting is back—but this time the battle lines are redrawn
War on the Warts
Nutritional supplements help combat warts and the seemingly intractable molluscum by improving overall skin health.
Rub a Drug Flub
A doc’s penmanship may be mightier than the sword
Déjà Vu
Whose standard of care is bigger? It’s a draw.
Green Means Go
The NIH throws a party?--uh, study
The Cutting Edge
Uncut males are more likely to get HIV due to the tissue-paper-like thinness of the foreskin.
Sealed w/KS
Purple badges may have merit
Shalala Infections
Congress passed, and Clinton signed, a bill freezing the power of HHS Secretary Donna Shalala to fund syringe swaps until April 1, 1998.
An Ad Is an Ad Is an Ad
When is a “Be Smart” ad not a “Be Smart” ad? When it’s a Combivir ad.
ADAP Tapped
AIDS Drug Assistance Programs in need of aid
Trojan Wars
The World’s Toughest Condom title is still up for grabs, as Ramses backed down from claims that its love glove beats the competition.
Girls on Trial
FDA rules: Bark, no bite?
The Pill Drill
The Pill got a dose of bad press as research in the Lancet suggested a link between oral contraceptives and HIV transmission.
Say What
AIDS: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
Tapped for Greatness
Tap dancer extraordinaire Harriet Browne busted open the AIDS closet
My Brother
Kincaid may be haunted by memory, but she faces her fears by giving them voice.
Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels
The Science Behind Folk Remedies and Old Wives’ Tales
Carmine’s Story
Carmine pulls no punches. He won’t smile at the camera if he doesn’t feel like it and he’s honest about his feelings of isolation.
There Is Hope: Learning to Live With HIV
Up till now there hasn’t been an A-to-Z reference book to help a newly diagnosed person with HIV cope with all aspects of the illness.
Crocodile Tears
Ted Sod, the writer and star of this independent film, is not afraid to let the grubby hem of his Freudian slip show.
The Kinsey Sicks
AZT now has its own tune.
Gridlock’d
Two beat-down jazz musicians (Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth) decide to kick their heroin habits because their lives are getting too scary.
CATIE
Toronto’s Community AIDS Treatment Information Exchange provides much-needed information about the options available to Canadian PWAs.
Cocktails: The Morning After
Kidney stones, diarrhea, diabetes, liver toxicity, high triglycerides—and now “protease paunch.”
Patrolling the Borders
Handling HIV is a challenge for anyone, but for immigrants HIV is a totally tangled web.
AIDSpeak
The art of cocktail chatter
Instruments of Infection
Some recent outbreaks of drug-resistant strains of tuberculosis have been blamed on contaminated bronchoscopes.
Hiccup Blues
I heard that hiccups could be a sign of serious complications in PWAs—what’s the deal?
A New Kind of Waisting
Are drug cocktails causing ugly fat deposits?
.38 Caliber
Make way for the new CD cell on the block. Sean had better get down for the count
The Labors for Your Fruits
Every year in North America, 33 million people are made ill by food-borne infections, 9,000 of whom don’t survive.
Barbed Comments
Barb Cardell grapples with the brave new world of AIDS prevention and toxic meds
Party Planner
No “regrets only” to Tim Williams’ HIV
Hollywood Golightly
A former party girl reveals the myth behind the 90210 zip code
At the End of My Hope
A pariah rains on the protease parade They have left me to die. And not just me:
Criminal Body
Meet the media’s new bogeyman
I Got All My Sistahs With Me
This year I’m sending valentines to my girlfriends
Primo Chemo
The treatment stinks. So does the patient
S.O.S.
HIV predator stories have become a media staple
Mailbox
Shame on Shalala
POZ Stars
My Funny Valentine meets Love in the Time of Cholera Pisces
OBITS
Jon Fryman, 46; William Garcia, 29; Jerry Roemer, 32
