POZ October 2004
POZ October 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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Crime No. 69
In which our nervous HIVer pays a big price for two little words we’ve all been tempted to say before sex: “I’m negative.”
Inside the Issue
Who’s Afraid of HU?
How—and why—the government and top docs have shelved a potentially lifesaving HIV med
Six Nights in Bangkok
Despite a record 17,000 delegates from 160 countries (and a smattering of celebs), the 15th International AIDS Conference was light on...
Their Patients, Their People
More than half of all new HIVers are African American, but only a handful of top HIV docs are black.
Thar She Blows!
Hey, HIVers: Don’t know if you should disclose before someone goes down on you? Consider:
HU Handbook
The Treatment Scoop on Hydroxyurea
Heartbreak Hotel
Shabby HIVer housing rouses an unlikely activist
Quilt Trip
Admirers thread among 8,000 new AIDS Memorial Quilt blocks blanketing the Ellipse—just south of the White House—on its June 25 debut.
Earthwatch
On July 19, Guangzhou, China, introduced sex education to kindergartens and primary and middle schools to reduce teen pregnancies...
No PEP Rally
Easy-access morning-after HIV meds? It can’t happen here!
Milestones
Top Seattle AIDS doc Stephen Tabet, MD, 42, died suddenly July 6 of an unknown illness.
Show & Tell
When you feel like crap, do you play it up-or down? Summer’s over, but these HIVers aren’t throwing in the (beach) towel.
Topsy-Turvy
Are tops the new bottoms for HIV risk?
AIDS VOTE ’04
With deadlines for voter registration and absentee ballots in this year’s presidential election quickly approaching, POZ has launched an...
Pos & Neg
In the first-ever such clinical study, generic 3-in-1 HIV meds proved just as effective as their brand-name counterparts.
Meth-od Actor
Pop cult hero John Cameron Mitchell inches into battle against HIV’s best bud: crystal meth
West Denial Virus
A dissident’s film dodges the “other” side
Bangkok Big Top
Elephants prancing on the logo of July’s International AIDS conference in Thailand trumpeted no big scientific breakthroughs.
Briefs
The incidence of anal cancer among gay HIVer men hasn’t fallen significantly in the HAART era, a new study shows.
Private Parts
HIVers are living longer--but so are their chances of having something growing down there.
Forbidden Grapefruit
Grapefruit juice (GFJ to its friends), like all citrus, bursts with crucial nutrients like vitamins C and A, antioxidants and potassium.
Quick Study: Prostate
Prostate-gland stimulation ups HIV levels in semen—even in HIVer men with undetectable blood viral levels, says a small study.
Alzheimer’s Drug Does HIV
Can a new med ease HIV dementia and PN pain?
Body Eclectic: Lungs
A short-winded take on two conditions that leave HIVers breathless
Get Flu-ent
Flu season rears its sneezing, achy, feverish and just plain ugly head each fall, and HIVers consider rolling up their sleeves and fighting
If You Knew Sushi
With AIDS and liver disease from hepatitis B, I’ve been given only a few weeks to live—for the past two years.
39%
Cases of Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) cancer in HIVers have fallen by 39% since the dawn of HAART.
Trip or Treat
On fright night, Joe Westmoreland bunks with the Phantom of Sustiva.
Scared Straight
Hetero HIVer MC Mars remembers catching the “gay disease"
Hitched & Bewitched
An HIVer casts a legal love spell on his new husband
Mailbox
I went to Howard University, and there are a lot of down-low brothers on that campus, as you discussed in “His Diff’rent World.”
