POZ June 1998
POZ June 1998
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
Some Like It Hot
Meet the Marilyn Monroe of AIDS awareness
Inside the Issue
Body Snatchers
Women on protease ask: “Who is that in the mirror?”
Sleeping With the Enemy
As sky-high drug prices bankrupt ADAPs, AIDS advocates and pharmaceutical reps make strange bedfellows
Out on a Lymphoma
One man’s trip from tumors to transcendence
ADAP or Perish
Loot to the companies, boot to the PWA’s
When Chemo Calls
How to make the best of it
Cliff Hanger
A Texan PWA turns bodybuilding into a team sport
No Ordinary Patsy
To grandmother’s house we go
Over Bite
Naomi Morrison learns that the customer’s not always right
Outlandish Behavior
Agatha Christie’s ghost appears in drag
Film Freak
Tom E. Brown’s shorts are long on laughs
Where to Find It
“Cosmo Confessions” Haven’t had your fill of Doctors, Liars and Women?
Milking It
Shalala’s an udder shame
Out of Africa
HIV traced back to Congo, 1959
Nuke Wars
d4T bests AZT in sales
Cheap Sex
Unhappy hookers
What a Croc
HIV in a kangaroo court
A Sari State
No girl power in India
Karate Kid
Is boy being helped or used by Christian right?
Play Safe
Billy, the fully equipped $49.95 Barbie-for-boys, is doing safe-sex promos.
Shot in the Arm
Big Apple press sticks it to Rudy
The Page Is the Rage
Electronic busybody for chronic busy bodies
S.O.S
If I get really sick again, will I do it differently?
To the Editor
Your thoughts on our past issues
Touching Tale
Charles played people’s prince last winter with HIV positive former brothel workers who now live in a Katmandu shelter.
Say What
The AIDS Ride and more
Cosmo Confessions
When the plague stepped into Helen Gurley Brown’s parlor
Full of Spunk
The biggest sex radical of all is gone
POZ Picks
Pick of the Litter
The Art of War
A first novel by a survivor of two genocides
Obits
Willis Green Jr., 50; Dean X. Johnson, 42; David Taylor, 39
Bull Market
Only HIV wins in twice-daily-Crixivan wars
Final Analysis
River and her lover take their turn on the couch
The Secret Origin of Positoid
How our superhemo decided to use his powers for good
Wheels of Love
An easy rider recalls the hard bumps on the road of life
Party Favors
Do yourself one: Get the dope on the protease effect
Cervix Service
New screening tool may boost your odds for preventing cervical cancer
Don’t Be So Sensitive
Sean’s very low viral load on the ultra test may mean little
Hair Goes!
Home maintenance for your mane
Hear Her Roar
Irma Torres sounds off on Latinas, lesbians and her last drag
Smear Campaign
Many AIDS docs are slow to catch up with the latest research developments—a failing that risks
If You Buy One Book...
The Intelligent Patient’s Guide to the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Camp Heartland
Activist alert: They’re putting kids with AIDS into camps!
Ladies First
Organizations supporting women with HIV
New Drug watch
PWA Stephen Gendin weighs in
