POZ June 2001
POZ June 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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Longtime Companion
Michael Gottlieb was at AIDS ground zero in 1981. Today the good doctor is still standing -- and still leading the pack in patient care.
Inside the Issue
Generation AIDS
Liz Murray, age 20, wasn’t born with AIDS -- but with two positive parents, she certainly grew up with it.
It’s A Small AIDS World After All
HIVers from across the globe hash out our AIDS future
Marsha Burnett
46; Montpelier, Vermont; 14 years with HIV Survival Secrets
Ruben Rodriguez
50; Brooklyn, New York; 19 years with HIV
How They Shot AIDS: A Viral Video Roundup & Takedown
At 20, the epidemic is a Hollywood has-been.
AIDS Movie Must-Haves
If life has only two stories -- a stranger comes to town, and a man goes on a journey -- films about PWAs have only five plot points.
Words to Live By
POZ staffers dug through their at-home libraries and dusted off the tomes most likely to stand the test of time.
Memento Mori
An exhibit looks back on the epidemic through its ephemera. Esther Kaplan speaks with two keepers of the flame, who hope their “living” arch...
Quotes: 20/20 Hindsight
Two decades, countless dead, no cure. What now? POZ asked seven friends for their thoughts on the birthday that was never meant to be.
Birth of a Notion
Anne-christine d’Adesky slips inside the drug pipeline to shine light on a dazzling new promise for “salvage” therapy.
About Face
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the cheekiest of us all? Lark Lands on the new “sugar” shots for facial wasting.
Life After Birth
Anne-christine d’Adesky on mom’s little helper: a placenta protein promising a new entry blocker
Serostim Sabotaged!
In a chilling first-ever, counterfeiters strike at a U.S. AIDS drug. Julie Hantman asks whodunit.
Herb Of The Month: Hawthorn
Hawthorn
Warning: A Riff on Amps
Ya heard?!?
Natural Woman
As Chardelle Lassiter asks The Big Question (to HAART or not), she demands that doc r-e-s-p-e-c-t her choice.
The Right Angle
What will AIDS activists really find behind the Bushes? Doug Ireland gets the inside dope from the Right guy.
Hotline Help Me!
Fielding calls from the well worried, Emily Carter finds that years of HIV info is fleeting, while sexual shame is forever
Under My Skin
Injecting AIDS meds may cause ex-junkie jitters and even mess with sobriety.
Editor’s Letter
Let me be the last to remind you that June marks 20 years since the first sign of AIDS was recorded.
Mailbox
Thank you for the inspirational interview with Paula Peterson (“Choosing Our Religion,” February/March 2001).
First Case Scenario
UNFIT TO PRINT: 40,000 doctors and medical workers, and 835 reporters, received the CDC’s report of a strange pneumonia in five "active...
Songs In The Key Of Life
Forget the made-for-TV Survivor -- AIDS makes frying rats for dinner seem like fine dining.
