POZ January 2003
POZ January 2003
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Global Fund and Games
Only a year after its happy, shiny launch, the first united fund -- and last hope -- to control the AIDS catastrophe is nearly bankrupt.
Inside the Issue
My Clementina
Back in Disco Frisco, frisky young men would pack the VD clinic with a name like a goldminer’s whore, giving blood to crack a dread new...
Three’s Company
...but is a triple-nuke combination enough crowd to stop HIV? Tim Murphy probes Trizivir, the trendy three-in-one pill that...might
HPVAX
Merck’s vaccine pipeline is a gusher! Last year its therapeutic HIV vax made headlines.
A Pox Upon Ye!
Last fall, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made waves when it recommended a voluntary smallpox-vaccine program to be extended to...
MAC Attack!
Take a crowd of HIVers with MAC -- one of AIDS’ nastiest opportunistic infections (OIs) -- put ’em on effective HAART, and what do you get?
Booster Goes Bust
At Chiron Corporation, business is business for a landmark interleukin-2 (IL-2) study.
Hep C Help
If you’re tired of feeling like a human pin cushion from thrice-weekly injections of alpha interferon to treat hep C, here’s good news.
Free Lunch
Empty pockets don’t have to mean empty medicine cabinets.
Is That a Protein in Your...?
Reaching undetectable on HAART lessens your risk of transmitting HIV, but not to zero -- even for women.
Editor’s Letter
I was on www.m4m4sex.com last Saturday at 2 a.m., instant-messaging with Everbaltop.
Mailbox
“Life vs. Meth” [July/August 2002] bothered me greatly. All these men talk about how sex is what drives them to use meth.
Our Virtual Saint
Why did the HIV-info lifeline, www.aegis.org, go dark last fall? Sister Mary Elizabeth explains it all.
How’s Sean’s Health?
Two years after his last POZ blab, our longtime survivor goes head-to-head with his longtime doc on everything from drug holidays to...
Just Say Low(ER)
In October, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an official warning about taking tenofovir (Viread) and ddI (Videx EC) together.
P24
While some may shriek at the idea of exporting the West’s problematic med tech to the Third World, others argue it’s better than nothing.
Hair
Are you absorbing enough of your HIV combo?
30%
30% of the nation’s newly infected are injection drug–users.
800%
Clearly, stress and SEX of being on HIV meds can complicate your SEX, but explore all options with Doc and Darling before letting l’amour...
The 2002 POZCARS
For performances dashing, dastardly, and dubious in the still-crazy-after-all-these-years of AIDS...and you don’t have to dig out that...
