POZ September 2021
POZ September 2021
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
The Feather and the Knife: Navigating Life With Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a fact of life for far too many people living with HIV. But new research aims to address it at its core.
Advances and Challenges in Fighting HIV
Providers and advocates reflect on the legacy of AIDS and its implications for COVID-19.
Editor’s Letter
Everybody Hurts
For many people, chronic pain is a constant companion.
POZ Q+A
Representation Matters
The Hollywood film “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” recreates a historic interview with a man living with AIDS.
POZ Planet
Breaking HIV Laws
Plus: Watch videos from this year’s HIV is Not a Crime (HINAC) virtual conference.
PrEP, PEP & Pharmacists
Legislators in California, Colorado, Missouri and Nevada passed bills allowing pharmacists to prescribe HIV prevention meds.
Where a Giant X Marks the AIDS Memorial Spot
The AMP: AIDS Memorial Pathway in Seattle was officially dedicated in late June.
A New HIV Tool for Black College Students
It’s just one element of HRC’s “My Body, My Health” initiative.
Everyday – September 2021
These dates represent milestones in the HIV epidemic.
Voices
Two Viruses, One Lifetime: How HIV Prepared Me for COVID-19
In an opinion piece HIV activist Orbit Clanton describes how he applies lessons learned from his past to the new pandemic.
Reducing Harm
AIDS United urges us to learn the lessons from HIV outbreaks fueled by injection drug use.
Spotlight
In Memoriam: Marco Castro-Bojorquez
His unexpected death dealt a devastating blow to the many people who knew him personally as a friend, mentor and advocate.
Ask POZ
Ask POZ - September 2021
What are the consequences of overweight and obesity?
Research Notes
Prevention: Vaccine Failure
An experimental vaccine combination did not protect people from acquiring HIV in a large clinical trial.
Treatment: Cabenuva Preferred
People who used long-acting Cabenuva preferred the injections over their previous daily oral regimen.
Cure: Immunotherapy
Monkeys with SIV started generating specialized immune cells that may be able to hunt down and eliminate the virus from latent cells.
Concerns: Cervical Cancer
Women living with HIV in the United States have a greater likelihood of developing cervical cancer than HIV-negative women.
Care And Treatment
Stay in Care for Better Outcomes
If at first you don’t reach an undetectable viral load, try, try again.
Updated Treatment and OI Guidelines
The Department of Health and Human Services recently updated its antiretroviral treatment and opportunistic infection guidelines.
Disparities in Viral Suppression
Differences in HIV viral suppression between Black and white people have little to do with their personal behavior.
HIV Care for Homeless People
A low-barrier HIV care program with access to multiple services in one place can help.
Basics
Fatty Liver Disease
With no approved treatments, management of NAFLD and NASH relies on lifestyle changes.
Heroes
The Battle Goes On
Bronx-born Ronald Johnson started his HIV career as a volunteer at GMHC at the very beginning of the epidemic in 1984.
Survey
Pain in the...
September 2021 Survey
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