POZ November 1998
POZ November 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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Organizing Inside
Inmates have emerged as their own best AIDS educators and advocates. Why don’t prison wardens, ASOs and health departments get it?
Inside the Issue
Concealed Weapon
PWA Greg Smith is serving 25 years for attempted murder. His crime? Allegedly biting a corrections officer.
Long Day’s Journey
From Far Rockaway to Sing Sing, the children of an inmate with AIDS hold a family together.
Lethal Lottery
Treatment and care for inmates with HIV varies dramatically from prison to prison. The luck of the draw can mean life or death.
Natural Bootleg
A prison drug-smuggler’s story
Double-Crossed
New investigation and intrigue in ’80s tainted-blood tragedy
Signs of Life
Photographer Frank Jump captures traces of a lost world.
The Trouble With Norvir
Abbott’s manufacturing malady is hard to swallow
Engine No. 48,000
New know-not infected stats
S.O.S.
POZ gets a lot of mail from prisoners with HIV. Every day the letters arrive, sometimes in stacks.
To the Editor
“Congratulations on the “Summer Fiction Reader” (August 1998). It’s superb.”
None the Wiser
Woman with HIV bedded men for revenge
Tomato, Tomahto
Brits nix early treatment
Enter at Your Own Risk
The U.S. government reached the end of its red tape in July when it allowed a PWA to re-enter the country where he had lived and paid taxes.
Say What
“POZ epitomizes all that is sordid, insipid, obscene, meretricious and disingenuous about nouveau riche ‘HIV’ consumer culture."
Swim Lessons
Surprise! Sharing a snorkel has no HIV risk
Stigma Enigma
Public attitudes about AIDS have changed…for the worse.
Daddy’s Helper
Legislator burns to ban Viagra for PWAs
Nushawn on the Block
The Nushawn Williams case became a lightning rod in the debate over criminalization of transmission.
Privacy Parsed
A national medical ID poses severe threats to HIV confidentiality
Equal Protection for All
Supreme Court backs application of ADA to prisons
“Just Say No” to Welfare
The president who didn’t inhale now denies benefits to those who do
Ms. Thurman Goes to Washington
The AIDS czar has activism in her blood and ice in her bra
POZ Picks
This collection by imprisoned writers shatters stereotypes in a barrage of complex truths.
Show and Tell
Serodiscordant relationship sounds more like Cold War tensions than hot nookie between people with and without HIV.
The Eye in the Storm
Andrew Sullivan takes on love, loss, friendship and sex
Get Our Phil
The king of chat loves to do just that
POZarazzi: AIDS! The Musical
Movers, shakers and troublemakers
Verse: Amirah
You walked the earth deliberately, solid-thighed, heavy-treaded, laden with Koran...
Obits
Bruce Cratsley, 53; James McIntyre, 49; Fabrice Simon, 47
One for the Books
Tommy and Valerie Reeder’s romance is better than fiction
Flying Ace
Francine Rodriguez reaches for the sky
Tucker: The Man and His Dream
He beats the odds behind the walls
Hatch a Plan
On the run—this time for Congress
Poetic License
She was a poet who didn’t know it…until she got HIV
The Vision Thing
At New York City’s PWA Health Group, the bottom line ousts a top activist
Stop the World, I want to Get Off
When neggies pop The Question
Surviving Behind the Walls
People with HIV on the street have learned that there’s no substitute for aggressively taking their health into their own hands.
Prick and Tell
Home HIV tests made easy
The Bitter End
How to stomach liquid Norvir
Draining the Reservoirs
It’s clear by now that crafty HIV infiltrates a variety of hidden “reservoirs” in the body.
Testosterone Beats Fatigue
A shot of testosterone can really perk up a guy’s day and night, according to Dr. Glenn Wagner
Carnitine Boosts CD4s
Increasing CD4 counts with a nontoxic agent already available sounds like wishful thinking.
Multivitamins for Moms
The motherly advice of “a vitamin a day” got powerful new support from a clinical trial
Bleach Works
Tips on reducing harm from drugging and tattooing
HIV Med Line
Answers to common combo-therapy questions
Weight List
Pump it up
Do the Hustle
Better eating behind bars
A Mantra a Day
De-stress with meditation
Attack of the Monster Combo
HAART broken, Stephen Gendin is prescribed a six-to-eight drug regimen
Helper Cells
Information and advocacy for prisoners with HIV
He Still Is What He Is
Broadway’s favorite songwriter opens a new window
Dark Secrets
Barton Benes makes art combining images with text from the thousands of letters his Aunt Evelyn wrote to him in the ’70s.
