POZ October 2003
POZ October 2003
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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The Clock Watchers
With their multidrug resistance and dwindling T cells, HIVers desperate for “salvage therapy" remind us that in the absence of a cure...
Inside the Issue
After Ibn Zuhur
Before it was trashed amidst the U.S.-led invasion, this hospital outside Baghdad was both protector and prison for its HIVers in Sadaam’s..
In Cold Blood
By holding next year’s world AIDS confab in Bangkok, will the global community be backing Thailand’s practice of murdering HIVers?
Unfine China
Villagers with HIV in Xiongqiao, in China’s Henan Province, rallied last summer to demand better care and payment of their $36 monthly aid..
Maine Idea
If you lack health insurance—and Medicaid or ADAP won’t cover needed care—point your legislators to Maine.
Bayer’s BIG Headache
In May, a New York Times investigation hit the Bayer Corp. with a headache from hell.
Pos/Neg
Popular South African Parliament member Patricia de Lille has launched the country’s first woman-led political party with three HIVers...
Gone Shopping
Married for 30 years, my friend Juanita agonized over an unprotected sex affair — but wouldn’t go near a clinic for an HIV test.
The Bug Stops Here
Thirteen percent of HIVers have done the dirty without using condoms or mentioning their serostatus to negative or untested partners.
Milestones
A belated tribute is due to gay-rights pioneer John E. Fryer, MD, one of the first psychiatrists to specialize in treating HIVers.
Documania
Three reality flicks duke it out to deliver a crash course on the global catastrophe
For Pete’s Sake
Sequined showstopper Peter Allen’s grand entrance onto Broadway—again
Wake-Up Call
Chris Bull’s ambitious tour of two decades of seminal AIDS writing, While the World Sleeps (Thunder’s Mouth Press, $16.95), opens with...
Heavenly & Hazardous
Nurse Know-It-All serves up some cold, HAART advice on her two favorite vices
Shock and Blah
Anonymous discloses to a devastated response—her own
Publisher’s Letter
My boyfriend doesn’t want to have sex with me a lot of the time.
Mailbox
Partner is my favorite section of POZ.
Lady Liberate
The stud/slut double standard is worse than degrading—it’s downright deadly.
Cash Up Front:
The feds’ goal of halving America’s HIV rate—now 40,000 new cases a year—by 2005 would cost $383 mil more in prevention funds annually...
Tastes Great! Less Filling!
Keeping condoms consumer-friendly takes constant innovation, especially with oral sex such a, uh, hard sell. Mint is out. What’s in?
Tat Caveat
Tattoos have been getting some bad ink.
Only A Test
Google “home HIV test,” and Discreet’s website pops up.
Lipodystrophy
Trials of Serostim (human growth hormone or HGH) to treat lipodystrophy are now joined by a study of peptide TH9507.
New Meds On The Shelf
Reyataz (atazanavir) and Emtriva (emtricitabine)
Book Report
Nerve-numb HIVers who loved Numb Toes and Aching Soles and Numb Toes and Other Woes, Senneff’s guides to periperhal neuropathy (PN)...
60% of HIVers Now Survive Lymphoma
The incidence of non-Hodgkins lymphoma hasn’t fallen in the HAART era.
Zip Your Lipids
HAART is famous for raising cholesterol, but you’re lacking in lipid linguistics?
Tea Cells
Raise your pinkie and haul out Granny’s china: Tea might cure AIDS.
Paris When It Sizzled
Resistant HIV floods Europe! Superinfections sighted! Fat returns to lipo faces!
Playing It Safe And Sexy
While the big National HIV Prevention Conference in July sounded the alarm over last year’s 7.1 percent rise in new gay HIV cases...
HEP Or HIV?
Hiv/hepatitis C coinfection poses a dilemma: Which virus should be treated first?
The Soprano
To fight the stress and worry of HIV, I pray, use relaxation tapes—and sing.
Dementia
A blood test may soon show your risk for HIV-associated dementia (HAD).
Butch And Moan
Love don’t come easy to middle-aged cabbies with HIV. M. C. Mars drives the point home.
Toxic Avengers
A ballsy corps of HIVers strikes up awareness
