POZ September 2016
POZ September 2016
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
Feel at Home: Finding solutions to housing older Americans living with HIV/AIDS
Finding solutions to housing older Americans living with HIV/AIDS
On the Safe Side: Can supervised injection facilities help reduce U.S. HIV rates?
Can supervised injection facilities help reduce U.S. HIV rates?
From the Editor
As Time Goes By
The combination of aging with HIV has its own special challenges.
Feedback
Letters-September 2016
Feedback on becoming positive on PrEP, tackling fatigue and getting a master’s degree
POZ Q + A
Learning to Live: The Reunion Project supports long-term survivors
The Reunion Project gives long-term HIV/AIDS survivors an opportunity to share their stories of loss and survival.
POZ Planet
They Got the Beat!
Social media stars shine the spotlight on HIV.
Sole Mates
TOMS + the Keith Haring Foundation
Poz Stories: Tammy Bellish
She just finished her master’s degree in social work, and she’s ready to keep going.
Mapping HIV Risk
The CDC lists 220 counties where injection drug users are at high risk of HIV and hep C.
AHF’s Tenofovir Lawsuit
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation alleges Gilead could have developed the safer version of tenofovir earlier.
Kenneth Cole’s Newest AIDS Act
Fashion designer Kenneth Cole is now an international goodwill ambassador for UNAIDS.
An Olympic Record in Condoms
About 450,000 free condoms were supplied to athletes and staff at the Rio Olympics.
Voices
Exclusion at U.N.
HIV/AIDS activist Theodore Kerr details the unfortunate consequences for LGBT people, sex workers and drug users.
POZ Survey Says
Full Disclosure
Disclosing your HIV status can be a daunting task. Here are your responses to our disclosure survey.
Care and Treatment
HIV Prevalence Varies Widely Among Gay Men
The U.S. HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) hits the South especially hard.
HIV Ages Cells
This shift is associated with a 19 percent increased risk of death.
First Alzheimer’s Case in Someone With HIV
This man’s diagnosis could be an indicator of what is to come for an aging HIV population.
Simple Bone Loss Solution?
A single infusion of the osteoporosis drug zoledronic acid is associated with protection against bone loss
HIV Spreads Quickly After Infection
This apparently causes immediate immune reactions that effectively fuel its replication.
Research Notes
Prevention: Antibody Infusions
A future form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) may be an antibody infusion given every other month.
Treatment: Pill Pushing
People with HIV may feel pressure to go on treatment.
Cure: Gene Editing
Scientists have used the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing method to snip out a key fragment of HIV’s genetic code from the cells of live rodents.
Concerns: Cancer Care
People diagnosed with various cancers are less likely to receive treatment if they have HIV than if they are HIV negative.
Heroes
Working the Room
Brendle-Moss has built up an impressive advocacy résumé, working with organizations like The Well Project, AIDS Alliance and TAG.
SeroZero by GMHC
Promising Crossroads: Choosing Our Future
We are at a promising crossroads in terms of ending the epidemic, but in order to achieve that promise, we must have the courage to act now.
LGBT. Violence. HIV.
We know the threat of physical violence, even death, is a daily part of life for the LGBT community.
We Are All Long-Term Survivors
At GMHC, we are committed to taking care of our long-term survivors and have a long history of doing so.
