POZ September 2002
POZ September 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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Features
This Face has a Message for the World
New Yorkers don’t just quietly survive.
Lines Composed in a Looking Glass
Will the face I won’t show you be the one that betrays me?
Inside the Issue
The Problem with Protease
Protease combos were billed as a miracle.
Lipo: The Latest
What is lipodystrophy?
Parent Trap
When doctors and parents disagree on HAART for kids with HIV, “when to start” goes to court
What’s Life Worth?
Are priorities at the United Nation’s Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria all screwed up?
ADA R.I.P.?
HIVers cheered when the U.S. Supreme Court popped its HIV cherry with its first AIDS-specific decision four years ago.
Wind Beneath Their Wings
Hannah Sandeen, 11, of Des Moines, Iowa, and her stepbrother, Nile, 17, have one of those intense bonds that HIV nearly broke.
Fuzzy Math:
President Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” was in full June bloom as he persuaded Senate Republicans to scuttle a bipartisan $500...
Double Deal:
Denial killed the denialist; treatment killed the treatment activist.
Getting Snippy
Lose the turtleneck and save your own.
Creature Features
“Cover your boner or be a loner” may not be the lyric that leaps to mind at the sight of an orange-tinted drawing of a caribou, but these...
Clit Club
It starred research doctors, not Hollywood divas, but May’s Microbicides 2002 conference in Antwerp, Belgium, nevertheless served up some...
Con:
More than half of Lithuania’s 11,000 prisoners refused meals for eight days in June to dramatize their demands for meds and vitamins for...
Safe Sucks:
A Spanish study in the June Journal of AIDS asserts that deep-throating is a loooooooooooow-risk pastime for HIV transmission.
Our Daily Med
Imagine popping two tiny pills in the morning -- and going on with your day, your chemical shield against HIV intact for the next 24 hours.
Thymouse?
Down under, two teams of scientists took what may be a giant step in immune rebooting in June when they discovered the mother of all...
Run Interference
HIV’s habit of invading your CD4 cells, commandeering the DNA to reproduce itself and then destroying the cells is what makes it such...
Look, Ma, No KS!
But how much is too much of a once-bad, now-good thing?
Warts Up, Doc?
Could it be? A magic bullet to eliminate those gross growths caused by genital and anal human papilloma virus (HPV)?
Thai Clip:
Tryin’a make a shady buck off the HAART-deprived Third World, eh?
Only Connect:
Some trends are better left unfollowed.
False Alarm:
The soon-to-be-approved injectible, T-20, has been hailed as the next big thing in salvage therapy.
Tribute: Linda Grinberg
“Elegant Fighter, Tough Customer”
Bayou Blues
About 75 miles south of New Orleans lies Dulac County, where the United Houma Nation and other tribes live on fishing and shrimping in the..
Milestones:
San Francisco’s AIDS Emergency Fund, which provides fast money for poor PWAs, celebrated its 20th birthday in May.
Heroes
Stephen Gendin, one of the founders of POZ and a leading AIDS activist, died just over two years ago on July 19, 2000.
Mailbox
I have noticed with each issue that POZ gets smaller and smaller.
Back to Basics
From ACT UP to the beltway, Moisés Agosto wrote the book on AIDS activism. Now he’s writing poetry instead.
Publisher’s Letter
Stephen Gendin, one of the founders of POZ and a leading AIDS activist, died just over two years ago on July 19, 2000.
