POZ September 2003
POZ September 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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Features
Standing in the Shadows of Love
At 17, Dominique is falling hard—and forgoing the condoms—for an older man with an unknown past.
The Great Doctor / Patient Face-Off
You don’t listen to me! You don’t work with me! You don’t respect me! You’re not honest with me! Lovers’ quarrel?
Inside the Issue
Mailbox
I was deeply touched by the article featured in the May 2003 issue.
It Takes a Villager
Passive no more, positive have-nots hand over their pesos, rupees, and limparis to aid the ailing Global AIDS Fund. Will fatter cats follow?
Urinetown
Got needle-phobe friends who balk at getting tested for HIV?
Devil in a Blue Dress
In case you think of Viagra as a condom in pill form, the warning that Pfizer slips into each package is sure to set you straight.
U.S. Armed Cervixes
Could an upstart diaphragm offer women condom-worthy HIV protection?
Cell Culture
That November morning in 1997 was gray and windy, as if it already knew.
Milestones
Rana Ross, bass guitarist for Sinboy and a 20-year AIDS survivor, died of liver failure May 3 at 41.
Class Act
As hepatitis C ravages U.S. prisons, a district court judge has allowed the 30 percent of Oregon inmates with the virus to join a suit...
Good Book
If your eyes glaze over at global AIDS stats, a new three-author book, Global AIDS: Myths and Facts, will help you focus.
Rape OutRAGE
Why is an army of rapist getting HIV meds, while its victims are left to die?
It Happened in September
1985: The CDC announces that AIDS shows no signs of spreading to heteros and “is not easy to catch.”
Hitting the Switch
Suddenly you’re facing a fork in the road-your doc wants to change your combo. Should you follow your Doc’s lead or hit the breaks?
Missed Doses
Due to poor adherence, HAART may not work for about 50 percent of HIVers, according to docs at a confab in May.
Overexposed
If you and your boo are both HIV positive, and you’ve deep-sixed the condoms because you think the risk of superinfection is a myth, yet...
Count Down
New classes of antiretrovirals aren’t gushing out of the pipeline today, but you can spot plenty of old stand-bys in new get-ups.
Tailgating HIV
Julia was 23 and working New York City’s streets to feed a drug addiction when Joyce Wallace, MD, pulled up in a van.
20%
20% of serodiscordant gay male couples in a study preferred the female Reality Condom to a male condom for anal sex.
Potty Mouth
Nurse-Know-It-All....She’s baaaaack!
Booty Call
Some pains in the ass are treatable-like these two:
London Calling
Our pals across the pond, who tend to be less treatment trigger-happy than U.S. HIV docs, dropped a new bombshell.
Test Drive
These lab tests help steer your treatment the right way
Girl Talk
How do you help them steer clear of HIV, STDs and sex they’re not ready for? Some pros weigh in.
Boy Talk
Isn’t condom sense their job, too?
Editor’s Letter
On June 20, shortly before President Bush’s whirlwind tour of Africa, America’s AIDS advocates sent him a remarkable letter.
Lei’d in the Shade
It’s never too late to say Alhoa
The Wings Beneath His Wind
A flighty comment made by Continental Airlines CEO Gordon Bethune at an April aviation conference in Denver incensed AIDS advocates...
