POZ July 2005
POZ July 2005
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Feature
Southern Discomfort
41 percent of people with HIV in the U.S., many of them African American, live in the South.
Inside the Issue
Hot Type!
Just in time for summer vacation, POZ presents the winners of our Hot Type! literary contest. But brace yourselves.
The Rath of Con
Vitamin guru Matthias Rath joins South African Leaders to further foil a long delayed HIV-med rollout
Earthwatch
Some 3,500 U.S. HIVers and activists kicked off the Campaign to End AIDS—and their shoes.
On the March!
POZ’s C2EA countdown
Milestones
HIVer Tory Dent scored a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship on April 12 for her powerful HIV-laden poetry.
AIDS Walk of Life
Twenty years after 8,000 soles first shattered stereotypes by walking Los Angeles’ streets, power strolling has become an HIV fundraising
OOPS, They Did It Again
A trifecta of creepy bureaucratic blunders
Read It and Weep
4parents.gov, the new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ portal that preaches how to drill abstinence-only ideology into your...
Legal Eye
I’m in jail and keep having trouble getting my HIV meds. What can I do? Do prisoners have any legal rights?
Everyone’s a Critic
The first national AIDS memorial
POZ Picks
Read old-school activist Larry Kramer’s The Tragedy of Today’s Gays (Tarcher, $9.95).
Brad Pity
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just can’t get enough of…AIDS advocacy!
Aren’t You Due for a Vacation?
Drug holidays aren’t for everyone—or forever. But a nice, long break can be like summertime for your body and soul. A POZ guide.
The Scoop on Ice Cream
When summer makes you scream for ice cream, don’t let lactose intolerance or high cholesterol, insulin resistance and diabetes from HIV...
You Gotta Move It
This easy exercise may not cure lipo’s butt wasting, but 10 a day (in front of the TV, on the phone, etc.) can help spruce your caboose:
Zip ’Em Up
As a jazz pianist, I travel frequently, with rehearsals and performances dominating my schedule.
2 Is The Loneliest Number
Martell Randolph, a Los Angeles activist, spends hours surrounded by other HIVers.
C Note
A third of U.S. HIVers are coinfected with hep C (HCV)—most with tough-to-treat genotype 1.
New Kaletra, Nice to Meet Ya
In early May, the FDA approved once-daily dosing of Abbott’s powerhouse protease inhibitor (PI) Kaletra (lopinavir plus booster ritonavir)..
Zerit Dosing
A French study tried lowering 66 HIVers’ doses of the nuke Zerit (d4T) by 10 mg a dose to see if they could keep fighting HIV but avoid...
Take it From the Experts
How to cope with side effects? More meds, fewer meds, no meds...and humor
Forbidden Fruit
Hello, my name is River and I’m a sugarholic.
Altared State
When I walk down the aisle this summer, will I look like I have HIV?
Inside Job
Why an ex-con is pushing condoms on Arnold’s House
Publisher’s Letter
As the publisher of POZ and other health information—and as a new first-time mom—I think about health all the time.
