POZ November 2004
POZ November 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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Features
Vote ’04-Who’s better for people with HIV?
Bush or Kerry? POZ tracks each man’s AIDS record- and asks the experts what may happen if either of them wins in November.
Vote ’04-We Have Issues
Meet three HIVers keeping the Democrats and Republicans honest.
Vote ’04-4 More Years?!?
With a timeline and an excerpt from her new book, Esther Kaplan replays four years of Dubya’s AIDS policy. Can we survive another term?
Vote ’04-Who Ya For?
POZ pundit Doug Ireland cuts to the race chase. Plus, a poll of eight pull-no-punches HIVers-including Bob Hattoy and Mary Fishers, stars...
Vote ’04-Full-Frontal Election
Presidential elections are always full of sound bites and fury, but what does Bush vs. Kerry signify for HIVers?
Vote ’04-Hot Seats
Five burning Senate races to get HIVers off their asses
Inside the Issue
1,2,3...ENTRY!
HIV wends its wily way inside CD4 cells through an eerily precise three-step process. Here’s how it happens--and how entry inhibitors...
Back to School
A campaigning educator tells HIV to sit down and be quiet
When Life Hands You Lemons...
Thais get juiced on a new lemon aid
One Hot Tomato
Saucy HIV researchers in Novosibirsk, Russia, suggest that an AIDS vaccine may be blooming in your own backyard.
Microbicide Update
At July’s world AIDS conference, researchers lined up to hype the womanly wonders of HIV-fighting vaginal gels.
Sayonara, Suckers
Florida’s new snare tactic for HIV positive sex workers
Waiting to Exhale
In November, some Americans will vote to burn more than a presidential hopeful.
Pos & Neg
Utah capped its ADAP enrollment in July, joining 10 other strapped states and hiking the national ADAP wait list to 1,629.
Fit to Print
Canadian inmates get legal, virally safer tattoos
Website of the Month
Got HIV, a vagina and an Internet connection? Click on over to www.women-alive.org for femme facts and forums.
Milestones
In July, the feds demanded that the University of Southern California repay $1.08 million in mismanaged HIV-counselor training funds.
Meet Your Host
How HIV affects you depends on a loooong talk between the virus and your body. Let the show begin.
Briefs
Sustiva (efavirenz) lowers levels of VFEND (voriconazole, a thrush med), so don’t mix ’em, says Sustiva’s new label.
In Stores-and In Store
This year, drug companies have shoehorned daily fistfuls of meds into fewer pills and doses.
Brush With Nausea
After I started HIV meds, I developed what my mother would call a sensitive stomach—OJ plus coffee in the morning made me throw up.
Rebel With a Cause
Jason Farrell’s works: clean needles and care
A Woman’s Guide to Living With HIV Infection
A straightforward manual, probably most useful for newly diagnosed women, with lingo simply explained.
Those Other Pills
Vitamins and minerals get their day in the sun
Marijuana Mama
Shari Margolese’s son busts her for toking, er, taking her “herbal" meds
Found a cure
Mark Tuggle didn’t have a prayer. Then he got a program.
Founder’s Letter
There’s a billboard on the West Side Highway, in New York City, sponsored by shoe designer (and new amfAR board chairman) Kenneth Cole.
Mailbox
I recently had a horseback-riding accident and was treated very poorly at the hospital
Senior Class
Partying with one of America’s oldest HIVers
Earthwatch
In July, the Caribbean Community Secretariat accepted Cuba’s offer to train health workers and give the region discount Cuban-made HIV meds.
Inside Story
Entry inhibitors—drugs that stop HIV before it gets into your cells—are coming soon.
