POZ July-August 2002
POZ July-August 2002
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Life vs. Meth
Condoms have no chance against crystal. In tweaked sex, gay men are sharing a fantasy of flesh without end.
Inside the Issue
Once Upon A Time...
An evil virus clobbered all of the king’s meds (and other fairy tales)
Young At Heartland
Happy 10th Birthday! A summer camp for kids with AIDS celebrates coming of age -- and so do its fastgrowing campers
The Lying Game
For HIVers who tell fibs about their status to get others into bed, therapist Patrick Calif reads between the lies
This Is Only a Test
Resistance tests, the newest tools in the HIV kit, can be helpful in choosing from the cocktail menu.
Mbeki’s 180
An AIDS policy turnaround by the beleagured African National Congress (ANC) was made in April as President Thabo Mbeki both announced...
Spin Doctors
Most media stories about skyrocketing drug prices boil down to this: Consumer advocates blame the cost on corporate greed at the expense...
Soda Wars
Madison Square Garden was unseasonably empty on April 17, with the Knicks and Rangers out of the playoffs, but the streets outside were...
Iran Runs
Free antiretrovirals and TV ads advising junkies not to swap needles.
New Friend
What is POZ in Chinese?
Sex Crimes
Is politician’s ambition behind South Dakota witch hunt?
Got Milk? Get Meds
Every year 600,000 babies worldwide are infected with HIV, usually at birth or through breast-feeding.
Got His Goat
Here’s a baaabstinence-only story that would make President Bush blush.
Monkey C
Study results from researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) report an increased rate of DNA damage in the fetuses of monkeys...
Mind Trip
“It wasn’t meant for me to go,” Conscious (the name she chose to better reflect -- and conceal -- her identity) says.
Beach Reads
Summer’s bustin’ out all over, especially in the retroviral reading department, where African and African-American works are on display.
Memory Lane
For July’s world AIDS confab in Barcelona, installation-artist Scott Burnham made “I Thought About You” (www.ithoughtaboutyou.com)...
Face the Music
The Estate Project, preservers and promoters of works by visual artists living with or lost to AIDS, is adding the aural to their honor roll
Failure Is Sweet
April’s Keystone Symposium in Colorado played a kind of winter games to this summer’s 13th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona.
Who Done It
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that, for the first time, it was adding 12 antiretrovirals to its Essential Medicines List.
Defensive Tackle
Oh, that little mind-game of a virus.
Under the Sun
Bad news, HIV beachcomber: The sun is your enemy.
Cave Kava
Stressed and sleepless? Don’t count on kava.
Relayed Reaction
Pill panic hit in mid-May among HIVers in California, Connecticut, Maryland and Florida.
Habit Helpers
If you’re a drug user with HIV, it’s not easy to get the kind of care that you need-a doc whose aware of drug interactions, a support...
Ticked & Stoned
The streets of San Francisco -- the seedier ones -- have long been a free-trade zone for pot dealers.
Rated X5
The National Cancer Institute has identified a natural antibody, X5, that seems to gum up HIV’s entry into CD4 cells.
Vax Populi
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day passed on May 18 with no announcement of a vaccine.
TB or Not TB
A new study by Atlanta’s Grady Memorial found that the hospital’s rates of HIV/tuberculosis coinfection plunged in the ’90s.
IV Leader
New government stats show that Portugal’s HIV rate is the highest in the European Union.
Flower Children
People power blooms as HIVers march on the Capitol and an activist is born in Albany
Milestones
South Africa lost 12-year-old Nkosi Johnson last year, but in April, the Swedish nonprofit Children’s World posthumously awarded him...
Drug Interactions
If you’re using drugs, drinking alcohol regularly or taking methadone while you’re taking HIV medicines, you need to know that sometimes...
Dubya Trouble
Five reasons to fear Bush’s war on HIVers more than terrorism. If there w
Publisher’s Letter
I live with a sock monster. My dog, Lucy, really likes socks.
Mailbox
This publication, month in and month out, tells it like it is, like it or not.
Reed Represents
Phil Reed on not being New York City’s openly gay, HIV positive city council member
