POZ July 2001
POZ July 2001
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Splitting Image: The attack on “too healthy” AIDS drug ads has exposed raw nerves and a new rift between the sick and the well.
The attack on “too healthy” AIDS drug ads has exposed raw nerves and a new rift between the sick and the well. Who’s reality is it anyway?
Inside the Issue
Is That All There Is to Approval? Folks at the FDA say they know what’s wrong with the fine print when they see it.
Folks at the FDA say they know what’s wrong with the fine print when they see it.
Combination Strategies: The more I read up on HAART interactions and side effects, the more it seemed like six of one, half a dozen of the other.
The more I read up on HAART interactions and side effects, the more it seemed like six of one, half a dozen of the other.
Gimme Shelter
Percentage of U.S. HIVers who have ever been homeless since their diagnosis: 36
Bells, Books and Candles
The Liberace Museum in Las Vegas is a rhinestone-encrusted shrine to the beloved pianist, who died of AIDS at 67 in 1987.
Quickies
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in May that a federal drug law blocks medical pot use.
Calling All Angels
Dominic Hamilton-Little on being done for
It’s Raining Meds
So many combos, so little data. Whether you’re a drug virgin or working on salvage street, sane “sequencing,” can you find a place in sun?
Demand Results
To tell if it’s time for a new cocktail, take the tests, listen to your HAART, and learn what
S.O.S.
Over seven years and 72 issues, we have always found a way to keep publishing POZ, despite great financial obstacles.
Parody Killed The Prevention Ad
MTV and HIV both turn 20 this year.
Genes In The Bunch
Steve Crohn’s lover died of AIDS in 1982, followed by many fiends, but every HIV test he took came up negative.
Deaths
Tracy Sypert, the news editor of Los Angeles’ leading gay paper, died of AIDS on March 14.
Shop Till You Drop
Griffin Shea on Zimbabwe’s casket boom
Gyn and Bitters
Jennifer Poteet on the doctor from hell
The Untouchables
All buzz, no fuzz: Italy’s “AIDS Gang” had nothing to do lose with a legal loophole that kept the bank-robbing PWAs out of jail. Their victiml...
Mailbox
POZ is absolutely right: The AIDS industry is all about money (The Biz of AIDS, April 2001).
All Lit Up
The Rage and Remembrance Literary Contest
