POZ June 2004
POZ June 2004
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Can We Talk?
Two neggie nobodies—in the company of one PWA activist vet—posed that simple question and got gay New York to answer to its crystal-meth.....
Inside the Issue
Crimes of the Heart
The link between HIV and domestic abuse is intimate, dangerous and underidentified—but ASOs and domestic-abuse groups are finally reaching..
Save ADAP!
That’s what these HIVers and advocates shouted as they stormed Congress to demand funds for the program that gets the neediest of us...
Meth Traps
New York isn’t the only city battling the crystal-HIV connection
How to Recognize Abuse--and Deal
The hardest part of getting out of an abusive relationship isn’t getting out—it’s knowing you’re in one. So how can you know?
Loose Threads
With its founder fired, will the AIDS Quilt unravel?
Milestones
Leading AIDS doc and advocate Scott Hitt had his medical license suspended April 7 for mutually masturbating with a patient.
International Male
Preventionisto John Chittick wraps up his five-year “AIDS attack”
Earthwatch
To inspire HIV openness, Malawi President Bakili Muluzi revealed in February that his brother had died of AIDS.
Soap Dish
A simple solution for everyday HIV
Briefs
A small Italian study suggests that the protease inhibitor atazanavir (Reyataz) may work as a booster for some other PIs.
Black Tar Smack Attack
East Coast heroin users who can’t kick the habit should be California dreamin’.
Female Troubles
When I picked up Paula Peterson’s Women in the Grove (Beacon Press, $20)—nine captivating stories about HIVer women—my own writerly...
Comic Relief
South Africa’s mighty tyke becomes an animated hero
POS/NEG
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will send only 50 delegates to Bangkok, versus 236 to the 2002 confab.
Double Exposure
HIV can ring twice. Are dual infections a mounting threat—or a molehill?
Quick Study: Nutrients
Trying to prove that a specially formulated powder of 33 vitamins and minerals could help HAARTy HIVers with peripheral neuropathy (PN)...
Paunch Punch
My STARS! The Serostim for the Treatment of Adipose Redistribution Study, that is.
Report from Retro
Treatment tidbits from the HIV confab
Tropical Trannie
When Christina Marsh talks HIV prevention to at-risk youth in Honolulu schools, all eyes and ears are on her.
Quick Study: Depression
Group therapy faded the blues for Ugandans affected by HIV and suffering from depression.
Warning Signs
Some 5 percent of HIVers display a hypersensitivity to the nuke abacavir (Ziagen), with symptoms including rash, abdominal pain, fever...
Tunnel of Grub
Think nine inches long and cylindrical. Then get your mind out of the gutter and up to the gullet.
Resources: Good News
10 advocates tab their favorite Web and print newsletters for treatment info.
Skin Trade
M.C. Mars wrestles with a troubled lover’s tempting invitation
Editor’s Letter
The three guys gathered around a table on our cover this month are making news for making noise about the plague of crystal-meth-related...
Mailbox
I took your little sex survey [“The Naked Truth,” February/March 2004], but I feel it discriminates against us virgins.
Trading Spaces
One veteran HIVer becomes a first-time homeowner
