POZ July-August 2013
POZ July-August 2013
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
Magnetic Attraction
Three long-term couples share everything—except HIV.
A Shred of Understanding
An essay by an HIV-negative public health advocate with over 20 years in the fight against AIDS on why providers must transcend empathy.
Hold Your Horses
Can barebacking be safer sex?
From the Editor
Accentuate the Positive
Our goals for this issue are to applaud their efforts and to explore the various meanings of “negative” for people with HIV.
Feedback
Letters-July/August 2013
Outrage over Tyler Perry’s latest movie Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor prompted several op-eds on POZ.com.
The POZ Q+A
Pride and Policy
Ernest Hopkins, an HIV-negative advocate in the fight against AIDS, shares his concerns for people with HIV.
POZ Planet
Say What?—Alicia Keys
Grammy winner Alicia Keys explains why she’s helping launch “Empowered,” a campaign to change the way U.S. women think about HIV.
Greetings from Ptown
Cape Cod’s AIDS services group marks 30 years.
PACHA Covers Trans Issues
As much as 69 percent of the U.S. transgender population is HIV positive, with transgender women and people of color bearing “an extreme...
Making Headlines
“Patient Zero” cooked up to sell 1987 AIDS book.
Latest Developments
Greenwich Village to get an AIDS memorial.
Not Another Gay Sex Disease
Deadly meningitis outbreak strikes MSM in NYC and LA.
Future Lovers
A quest to reinvent the condom, perhaps with bacon flavor.
On a Roll
An Italian awareness campaign launches in the ladies’ room.
Voices
Yours in the Struggle
In this edited excerpt from his blog post titled “Remembering NAPWA,” Paul Kawata looks back at early advocates of the fight.
Care and Treatment
The Quest to Cure Another Baby
After a 2-year-old child from Mississippi was functionally cured of HIV after an atypically aggressive antiretroviral (ARV) treatment shortly...
Viral Suppression Without Drugs?
Early ARV therapy proves beneficial to fourteen French people who started treatment within two months of contracting HIV.
The Genetic Fusion Inhibitor
Two new studies of gene therapies that operate like the fusion inhibitor class of antiretrovirals further the hopes that scientists may develo...
New Retention Guidelines Urge Partnerships
A major roadblock against widespread viral suppression in the HIV population is the fact that many who test positive drop out of care.
Mapping Viral and Immune Coevolution
For the first time, scientists have mapped the coevolution of HIV and the corresponding immune response in a single person, which has provided...
Research Notes
Prevention: PrEP May Be Cost-Effective
Preventing HIV transmission by giving antiretrovirals to people at high risk of contracting the virus, known as pre-exposure prophylaxis...
Treatement: Can Bees Sting Away HIV?
Tiny particles, or nanoparticles, embedded with a toxin called melittin that’s found in bee venom can destroy HIV while leaving surrounding ce...
Cure: HDAC Inhibitors May Fight HIV Reservoir
Scientists at Merck Research Laboratories are looking into a potential way to bring resting HIV out of latency—a necessary step in ultim...
Concerns: Hep C Transmission Among Gay Men
Sexual transmission of hep C among heterosexuals is rare (it’s mostly transmitted through needle sharing), but repeated studies have shown tha...
POZ Survey Says
Accentuate the Negative
In 2012, the World Health Organization estimated that globally as many as half of all HIV-positive people in long-term relationships have HIV-...
POZ Heroes
Chemical Crusader
As a retired pharmaceutical chemist, Long, who is HIV negative, was able to provide the activists and AIDS community with much-needed...
