POZ October 2002
POZ October 2002
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Tough Act to Swallow
Multis and powders and herbs -- oh, jeez!
Inside the Issue
Worlds Collide
Barcelona 2002 served up the usual: data, dish, despair -- and a few bright hopes
Alone on the Range
“Out there,” you have to travel all day to get to a decent doctor. If your neighbors find out, you could be run out of town.
Two-Timin’ Man
Elbowing out his gay AIDS czar, Bush turns far right to embrace an anti-condom queen as Congress girds to attack AIDS groups
New Head, Same Hydra?
The enemy of my enemy is my...enemy?
Mup Roar
Did she get it from Grover? We may never find out.
Land of Oz
“Apathy Is Lethal,” a brave, new ad campaign from the UN Foundation, will try to prod yawning Yanks with the stat that the world’s...
Merger Mania
Should HIVers shudder in terror at the spectre of big drug companies being swallowed up by bigger ones?
AZT Fraud?
It may be a classic case of AIDS activist David taking on Big-Pharma Goliath, but some advocates complain that this little David is...
Off The Cuffs
Don’t follow the United States’ lock-’em-up lead.
Red Scare
Chinese leaders may have thought they were off the hook last fall when they finally owned up to their HIV epidemic, but their reality...
Hardish Times
San Francisco AIDS Foundation (SFAF) ends up $2.5 million short, forcing it to lay off 28 from a staff of 117 last summer.
Fatwa Skinny
A Grand Mufti, Egypt’s religious highest-up, in May, issued a “fatwa against piracy.”
What’s In A...?
Atlanta is ACTing UP again -- so much so that two groups are vying for the name.
Epis Appeal
The first federal prosecution for growing pot under California’s medical marijuana law ended July 12 with the conviction of Bryan Epis, 35..
Mining for Meaning
Delegates to July’s 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona had barely sobered up when the self-satisfied organizers were...
Losing Control
Yes, Virginia, reinfection happens -- and it spells bad news for vaccines.
No Guest List
Burly bouncers like the protease inhibitors stop HIV from spoiling all the fun at Studio CD4, but why not hire bad-ass doormen to keep...
Hep Hooray
Calling all coinfecteds!
Home Remedy
Senegalese nonprofit ProMeTra reported that, in its three-year study of 62 HIVers on its herbal combo MeTraFAIDS, more than half saw...
Did You Hear?
Some HIVers choose to disclose their status. Others have disclosure thrust upon them.
Status Seeking
June 27 was National HIV Testing Day, sponsored by the National Association of People With AIDS (NAPWA). Who knew?
Editor’s Letter
The anniversary of 9/11 is, of course, a time to “remember.”
Mailbox
Prevention?
Obituaries
Nelson X. Figueroa, 45; Jackson Myars, 38; Greg Haller, 47
Sins of Transmission
Between the lines of the church-scandal news, Sean Strub finds the AIDS angle—and an echo of his own experience.
Porn Again
Going from reel to real, ex-star Tricia Devereaux makes a triumphant return to the adult-film industry
