POZ January 2000
POZ January 2000
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Work 2000
Wanted: Six NYC PWAS to share job experiences. Big growth potential. Must be willing to get hands dirty.
Inside the Issue
Take This Job & Love it!
Big business isn’t making friends with PWAS. But the positive policies at these 25 companies is help wanted.
POZ Work
Fifteen years ago, to commemorate our first Valentine’s Day, Kees Chapman gave me a card that boasted a big heart built from thousands of bric...
Editor’s Letter
AIDS was my generation’s Great War, and ACT UP was our army.
Mailbox
The November 1999 issue—the “new POZ”—certainly got your attention.
Glaxo Makes a Deal
Drug company goliath Glaxo Wellcome PLC took a hit in October from the postmodern slingshot: a lawsuit.
For Whom the Nobel Tolls
POZ sat down with Tido Von Schoen-Angerer, MD, a German volunteer with MSF’s HIV program in Bangkok, Thailand.
Homesick Blues
In his room at Chelsea’s Allerton Hotel, which doubles as a New York City residence for homeless people with HIV, Zonell Wright never had...
NEG/POZ
Despite increased profits, Glaxo Wellcome announced in October that it will shut down drug production in South Africa.
“Dutch” Treat
Edmund Morris’ official biography– turned–murky “memoir” of Ronald Reagan, Dutch, perplexed everyone with its use of fantasies, fict...
Eye of the Beholder
The debut of the new San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) gay-focused prevention posters in October set tongues wagging
Shout Out
“These people, they have all these galas, all these lunchesin posh places, but they’ve never been to Soweto.“
LA Women
Winding our way through the soulless glass and steel of the sprawling Los Angeles Convention Center, we find it hard to imagine that...
Missing Persons Report
I sat in the dark of Lincoln Center, clutching my girlfriend’s hand in grief while listening to the gorgeous words of women prisoners...
Catching Up With Michael Johnston
(POZ October 1998)
Milestones
Latino ASOs around the country banded together this past fall to form the National Latino AIDS Voice, a coalition and advocacy group.
Oink, Oink
Columnist Emily Carter used to settle for getting healthy off the fat of activism. Now she wants to bring home the bacon.
A Define Mess
Protease-era progress and pitfalls make “AIDS” ÃÂ la 1993 obsolete. What’s in a name? Michael Scarce has the answer.
Do Ask, Do Tell
Take the Sean O. Strub challenge: Come out, come out, whatever your status—at work and in bed.
Primary Colors
Holding his nose as he picks bad from worse, political pundit Doug Ireland recommends Bradley over Gore. The big guy’s proved to be a better l...
A Modest Proposal
A year and a half after promising CPR for the AIDS emergency in the black community, the feds finally deliver—a Band-Aid.
Portrait of the Artist as a Sex Bomb
Valerie Caris has used her body for money and art. Now it’s a source of healing, too. A tale of debauchery and revival.
Play It As It Lays
With drug resistance, every dose of meds is a crapshoot. Two new tests can maximize your odds.
Beginner’s Luck
Are you newly infected? It might help to know if your virus is drug resistant before choosing a regimen. Or it might not.
Follow Your Heart
Sean Strub’s high blood fats could lead to ticker trouble.
Next Up...The lowdown on what’s inside the pipeline
The lowdown on what’s inside the pipeline
Stool’s Gold
Who knew? Calcium, the fabled bone-builder, turns out to have another benefit: It’s a bullish butt-plug.
Comfort Zone
When I started my meds a couple of years ago, I began to have problems with my skin, and regular soap just made it worse.
Wart’s Up, Nurse?
Those unseemly bumps Down There
Herb of the Month
Ginger
Cancer Answers
Top oncologist Alexandra Levine breaks the great and grim news about tumors in PWAs
Watch Your Hep
Hepatitis A is certainly no fun—it can cause flulike symptoms, gastrointestinal misery and liver damage.
Boys’ Night Out
Ever since Kramer and company got together to do something about the gay men’s health crisis, the fighting hasn’t stopped.
