POZ March 2009
POZ March 2009
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
Zen and the Virus
Learning how to listen to your body and calm your mind can improve your health. (Video: “An Introduction to Zen Meditation”)
Sex, Tourism and HIV
When travelers’ desires intersect with sex workers’ hunger for economic survival, what happens in Jamaica doesn’t always stay in Jamaica.
Living
Staph Strains
People with HIV are more prone to drug-resistant staph, including recurring cases. Here’s how to steer clear of it.
No More Brain Drain?
For positive people who worry that HIV meds by themselves don’t seem to protect fully against HIV dementia, here’s good news.
Measure Up!
Losing weight may be as simple as shrinking your dinner plate—and thereby reducing the portions you eat.
Surviving HIV in Prison
Diagnosed with HIV in 2006 while in prison, Stephanie Walters adopted healthier habits: She takes her meds, exercises daily and has shed 100 p...
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Finding out whether you have hepatitis C virus (HCV) is getting easier—with OraSure Technologies’ OraQuick HCV test.
Web of Support
When you or a loved one faces a serious illness, it’s critical to keep your circle of supporters updated—and to hear from them.
The Word: Nocebo
No•ce•bo: A condition brought on by reading a long list of a medication’s possible side effects; suddenly experiencing some or all of them...
The Ups and Downs of On and Off
Many people with HIV have wondered whether treatment breaks—stopping and starting HIV meds—could lessen long-term med side effects and...
Positive Chatter
Twenty-four seven sign on to forums.poz.com
Prostate Cancer and HIV: Treatable
As positive people age, cancers affecting older negative folks strike them as well.
On Your Mark, Get Set...Taxes!
The April 15 deadline fast approaches. Are you ready?
Talking
About Face
HIV-positive Americans are taking flight for better, cheaper facial fillers.
Second Time Around
An author’s new work joins the past with the present.
Rubber World?
Weird condom news from around the globe
Redemption Song
NBC’s crime drama finally gets HIV right.
Southern Belles
A new website focuses on positive women.
Week On, Week Off
Structured treatment interruptions gave Shawn Decker a better quality of life—and a trip to the emergency room.
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Editor’s Letter-March 2009
A Matter of My Life—and Death
Letters-March 2009
I was thrilled to see my letter [about my experiences of being incarcerated and HIV positive] printed in the article “Free at Last?”
London Calling
When he tested HIV positive at the age of 17, the United Kingdom’s Clint Walters was shocked not only by his diagnosis—he had only been...
Help Us Make History. Again.
The first time a group of people with AIDS from around the country got together to strategize was in 1983 at a health conference in Denver.
GMHC Treatment Issues-March 2009
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