POZ February-March 2004
POZ February-March 2004
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Daring to Declare
When should you tell your new Valentine you’re positive? With some Beyoncé in the background? Over a light lunch?
Inside the Issue
Old Drugs, New Tricks
Wanna give your meds more bite against HIV and less toxic bark? Three of yesterday’s treatment no-no’s may be just what the doctor orders
Matchmakers
How helped Alaska’s Clarence and Chad break the ice
Jailbait
Disclosure isn’t always a choice
www.safesexcity.com
You’d think the Internet was invented to help a few horny people with very specific interests get their rocks off.
Go, Girl!
Lanessa Riobe, 16, of Kissimmee, Florida, in the Halloween costume that got her suspended from Osceola High School.
Earthwatch
South African experts argue that growing up parentless will not push Africa’s 12 million AIDS orphans into crime, militias or sex work...
Tribute: Greg Smith
Pride and Prejudice 1962-2003
Service With a Smile
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Pulitzer-winner Tracy Kidder’s biography of Paul Farmer, doesn’t merely educate—it motivates.
Karma Chameleon
He’s the most interesting pioneer you’ve never heard of. Philip Glass adored him; David Byrne and Allen Ginsberg collaborated with him.
That ’80s Show
The ACT UP Oral History Project video collection, by Sarah Schulman and Jim Hubbard, reminisces about the heyday of the AIDS Coalition...
Criminal Neglect
On January 25, 2003, a frigid day inside Limestone Correctional Facility in Capshaw, Alabama, large pieces of ceiling fell from overhead...
Pos/Neg
Circumcision and genital mutilation have been snipped from Ethiopia’s Gonder region.
Comic Relief
Cardinal Sin: The Vatican earns no A’s in science—it condemned Galileo until 1992 for saying the Earth circled the Sun.
In Memoriam
As many HIVers triumphantly leap into 2004, we also mourn the loss—in one week—of three long-term survivor AIDS activists and one esteemed...
The Great Depression
POZ founder Sean Strub fell into one. Here’s how he climbed out.
Briefs
Street-drug use and not knowing you’re positive are closely linked to having PCP pneumonia, says a small Chicago study.
Norvir up by 400%
Boosting price, not potency
Guidelines Re-revised
Last July, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued a revised set of guidelines for HIV treatment.
Genital Hospital
Penises and vaginas can spread plenty of joy—and STDS, among HIVers in particular.
Immune Up
Your CD4s were way low, so you’ve started HIV meds, and everything is coming up roses (viral load’s down, CD4s are up).
Do Single HIVers Die Faster?
A recent report would have you believe that when it comes to affairs of the HAART this Valentine’s Day, single HIVers face killer loneliness
More than 50 percent
...of HIVers switch or ditch their HIV combo in the first year due to side effects--mostly gastrointestinal ills like nausea and diarrhea.
Growing Up Positive
George Johnson, MD, directs the Pediatric HIV Clinic at the Medical University of South Carolina, but many of his patients aren’t babies.
Gum Up
Sometimes my mouth is so dry—I assume it’s from my meds—that my lips almost stick
Quick Study: Vitamins & Minerals
In a Thai study, HIVers with CD4 counts under 200 (and not on HIV meds) who took a high-selenium supplement (0.4mg a day plus many other...
Editor’s Letter
On World AIDS Day more condoms pass hands than on any other day of the year.
Mailbox
I’ve just read the October 2003 Publisher’s Letter, and I sympathize with Brad Peebles’ worries.
Unhappy Meal
An HIVer boycotts Big Macs after his bout with McDiscrimination
