POZ November 2001
POZ November 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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Masters of Disasters
What does the AIDS epidemic have to do with the events of September 11? Nothing -- and everything.
Inside the Issue
Out of the Chaos, Voices
I have horrible news -- two planes crashed into the World Trade Center!
The Mighty ACT UP Has Fallen
But in the depressed city of Philadelphia, one chapter has defied the doomsayers-by changing all the rules.
Hit Me, Baby, One More Time
Researchers have finally launched a study to prove whether or not HIVers can be “twice bitten” by their nasty bug.
Final Chapters
At its raging late-’80s/early-’90s peak, ACT UP boasted some 70 chapters worldwide.
Pilgrim’s Progress
From his Islamic roots and Midwestern boyhood, through Middle East travels, crack addiction and AIDS, to September 11 and beyond, he has...
St. Louis Blues
In St. Louis, a city with some 4,000 PWAs where blacks are nine times more likely than whites to get HIV, you might think citizens would...
Obits
Mychal Judge, 68, the Franciscan New York City fire department chaplain who died September 11 ministering to a fallen firefighter...
Truth and Dare
Is Seth Watkins a moron or a role model for Gen-Y gay men?
Dateline Dec. 1
What if they gave a World AIDS Day and nobody came?
Psst...Get This
California Governor Gray Davis was hit with 5,300 signatures from concerned constituents urging him to sign a bill ensuring access to...
Hope Screens Eternal
Southern Africa’s big export this year -- just in time for World AIDS Day -- is a bushelful of TV documentaries about AIDS.
Hearts & Crafts
Attention, shoppers! Here’s the remedy for that holiday what-to-buy horror: gifts that give twice.
Shelf Life
Anne Heche’s flighty, flinty narcissism makes her a compelling actress but proves her undoing in Call Me Crazy (Scribner, $25).
Treatment Interruptus
A leading STI researcher gives Rich Jefferys the scoop on the good, the bad and the experimental.
New Drug Watch: Tenofovir
Seems like only yesterday that biotech Gilead Sciences was bowing to activist complaints over its stringent expanded-access eligibility...
The Real Female Rubber
What’s old just might be new again if Nancy Padian, PhD, has her way.
Twice Bitten
Just because they already have a virus as big as the Ritz doesn’t mean that HIVers aren’t eligible for other infections.
SAY WHAT?
“Care for children with HIV/AIDS is defiance against a virus that also [like terrorism] exerts deadly force against the innocent.”
Curve Ball
“Baseball Legend’s HIV Link!”
Heart Smart?
Fears of future ticker trouble may put atazanavir, Bristol-Myers Squibb’s new once-daily protease inhibitor (PI), on the top of many HIVers’
Darkness at Noon
When the planes hit the towers, more than America’s innocence was lost. Doug Ireland reports on the end of AIDS as a public issue.
Stranger in a Strange Land
After the attacks, many HIVers felt guilty, ashamed and alienated. Dr. Arthur Fox reports on what they can offer a wounded nation.
Editor’s Letter
The two hardest tasks for POZ Publisher Brad Peebles and POZ Editor in Chief Walter Armstrong are deciding on a cover and writing their...
Mailbox
Thank you, Doug Ireland, for saying it like it is (“Missing in Action,” August 2001).
The Face of Terror
"God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve....“
