POZ January 2004
POZ January 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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Features
10 Ways to End AIDS
On New Year’s Eve 1993, 220,000 Americans with AIDS had died, almost 30,000 that year alone.
Happy New You
After 18 years at the HIV grind, Annette Lizzul needed a major makeover.
Inside the Issue
Political Science
Government agencies targeting HIVers. AIDS-researcher “hit lists." ASO audits.
’Prevention for Positives’
The CDC takes a radical right turn toward mandatory testing-and shaming gay men with HIV
2024: AIDS Cured, ex-PWAs Ignored
POZ turns to science fiction to imagine life with a cure
Trouble Indemnity
The journal Lancet calls disqualifying all HIVers from life insurance?
Earthwatch
Russian AIDS experts warn that the nation’s positive population could quadruple from 1.5 million to 7 million within five years.
Show & Gel
A pipeline report on girl-power tools for safe sex
Healthful Humor
You’re at lunch or in a bar with an HIV negative friend, when he or she asks: “Last night I was doing ___ with ___, and (he/she/it) put...
Living on Hope
A New York HIV doc at ground zero, South Africa
Milestones
Latino leaders across the U.S. launched the first National Latino AIDS Awareness Day October 15 to spice up HIV prevention and awareness...
High Resolution: New Year’s Creeds
My resolution is to get a husband this year.
2004: What’s In, What’s Out?
Liz Highleyman asks some leading HIV crystal ball gazers for their predictions
Briefs
Women on HAART are more likely to get body fat changes than men, despite less time on the meds, says a small Italian study.
When Your CD4s Count
Lab results can seem as mystical as tea leaves. Which numbers count the most? Two new studies might help you add things up.
New Med on the Shelf
Lexiva (fosamprenavir calcium)
Quick Study: Virus in Vaginas
Twenty-five percent of women HIVers with undetectable viral loads in their blood still had detectable HIV in their vaginal fluids, Italian..
Strike a Pose
HIVer Per Erez “spent so much energy worrying about when I was going to die, I forgot to live.
Chicago Hope?
A snoozy HIV summit’s greatest hits
Quick Study: Hep C
Very few women contract hepatitis C after becoming HIV positive, according to a large U.S. study.
Watch Your Mouth
Canker Sores, or aphthous ulcers, affect about one-third of HIVers, and they’re more painful and tenacious than in neggies.
CMV Drug Does Double Duty
Foscarnet (foscavir), the pricey drug for cytomegalovirus (CMV) and other herpes viruses (like that pesky genital variety), had its rise...
Bed Head
Joe Westmoreland rouses himself long enough to recount his never-ending struggles with fatigue
Unreality TV
With the TV cameras running, River Huston focuses on her fears-up close and too personal
Mailbox
The AIDS in Iraq article, “After Ibn Zuhur” [October 2003], is a deeply humane and important piece of journalism.
Publisher’s Letter
Last April, when my viral load began to rise, I switched from a four-drug boosted-protease combo to something the federal treatment...
Amazing Race
...where cancer and HIV are mere hurdles
