POZ January-February 2008
POZ January-February 2008
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
Growing Pains
Having grown up in a culture where HIV is misperceived as manageable and no big deal, four HIV-positive youth reflect on the events that...
A Stirling Example
Suzan Stirling learned she had HIV when her son and daughter were diagnosed with the virus.
Living
You’ve Come a Long Way, Babies
For positive infants today, HIV treatment offers plenty of growth opportunities.
My Generation
What about adolescents living with HIV?
Can We Talk
Rx for HIV-positive women whose doctors are the silent type
Raw Hide
Survey says: Dry skin afflicts positive people. We say: Soften up.
Parent Trap
When one half of a positive parent-child duo wants to be open about her HIV and the other doesn’t.
Homing Devices
How to stay fit—without straying far from your living room
The Insure Thing
Young adults with HIV often lack medical insurance in the time between living with their parents and striking out on their own.
Birds, Bees and HIV
How to talk to kids about sex when you’re HIV positive, without scaring them—and yourself
Pass the Mike
Sharing the stage—and the limelight—with HIV
Talking
Sugar Rush
Cross-generational, “sugar daddy” sex ignites the HIV-infection rate in Africa and America—and exposes gender vulnerability...
Cambodia Manhunt
Targeting HIV among men who have sex with men
Girl Talk
Many young HIV-positive women are at risk for other sexually transmitted infections.
Iowa Rocks
Positive residents can steer the ’08 race.
Download This!
“Sing,” by Annie Lennox
Angels in Africa
Filmmaker Louise Hogarth, who directed the polarizing 2003 documentary The Gift—about “bug chasers,” gay men who purposely contract HIV....
They Clicked
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, the KOOL Kids must be speechless.
Raven Reviews
The graphic novel Lost Raven tells the story of Zak Raven—a lawyer who, after discovering his HIV status, takes a high-seas sabbatical.
Fifteen Candles
Noah Murphy worried about meeting girls—until he went off to camp.
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Editor’s Letter-January/February 2008
Back on the Horse
Mailbox-January/February 2008
I just finished reading “Mortal Combat,” and I wanted you to know how impressed I am with this kind of thinking.
The NAPWA/TAEP HIV/AIDS Policy Report
Securing the Legacy of Ryan White: Lessons From a (Nearly) Forgotten Report
