POZ January 2002
POZ January 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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Generation Next
From Brooklyn to Beijing, these mavericks, pioneers and agitators will make this the last decade of AIDS. POZ picks 10 winners.
Inside the Issue
2002 For Beginners
Start the New Year with eight resolutions you can make and keep
The Rainy Season
Treatment trials and tribulations: Will the sun shine on HIVers in Uganda?
Ashcroft Goes to Pot
On October 25, 30 Drug Enforcement Agency troops stormed the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center (LACRC) in West Hollywood, California.
Statistical Significance
Read between the lines the next time you see a newspaper article with AIDS stats.
China Syndrome
The anonymous speaker sat off on one side of the stage, green glowsticks and shadowy lighting obscuring his identity.
Qatar Players
In a breathtaking-and-giving victory for HIVers, poor nations got the green light to access affordable generic drugs last November at the...
The Rights Stuff
University of Rome researchers checked the results of a 1997 World Health Organization/UNAIDS survey
Suicide Bomb
In a November decision rare for both its independence and its invective, U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones blocked Attorney General John..
Con Condoms
Self-ID’ing homos in an L.A. jail can enjoy their illegal sex safely now that the county sheriff has begun distributing condoms.
Sex Pistols
A chill is falling on HIV prevention groups that take federal money.
Say What?
Q: What can we do [about prevention] to stem the spread of HIV in the gay community?
Female Trouble I
We’ve got the juice!...and then some.
Female Trouble II
A Thai study found that vaginal cleansing, drying and even “tightening” products can up a woman’s risk of HIV infection.
Newbie Trap
Celebrated aids doc Brian Gazzard made headlines earlier this year when he kicked off treatment-conservative Britain’s first-ever program...
Feds Nix Lipo Fix
“Hideous!” is how New York City HIVer Tom Weise describes the November decision by the FDA to block imports of an injectable gel used to.....
Who’s Sore-y Now?
Those oozing eruptions and cakey scabs on your lip feel bad, look worse and are lethal for your love life.
E & Thee
If it feels so good, it couldn’t be bad, right? Not quite, rave child.
Tranny Pan
“Yippee!” I thought at the arrival of Transgender and HIV (Haworth).
Dot the Eyes
Directly Observed Therapy (DOT) for HIVers was launched last November by the Baltimore health department.
Life in Wartime
“Quarantine” in the headlines? AIDS activists as “terrorists”? Doug Ireland fears for the future when everything old is new.
Accidental Czar
Black advocates and Scott Evertz are AIDS’ newest couple. LeRoy Whitfield asks if the marriage and the man are just for show.
Mailbox
Staying well with HIV is a full-time engagement.
Torch Song
After a lifetime carrying a flame for the Olympics, Paul Harris gets to do it for real.
