POZ August 2001
POZ August 2001
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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Gimme A Break! Whether your doc likes it or not, Structured Treatment Interruptions are on the verge.
Whether your doc likes it or not, Structured Treatment Interruptions are on the verge.
Inside the Issue
Too Close for Comfort: Single HIVer looking for love but struggling with intimacy issues.
Single HIVer looking for love but struggling with intimacy issues. Sound familiar? Don’t blame the virus.
On an Off Trial: Itchin’ to take a drug break? Wanna add to collective STI knowledge?
Itchin’ to take a drug break? Wanna add to collective STI knowledge? Check out one of these clinical trials.
Publisher’s Letter
Thoughts of living forever once came naturally to me.
Mailbox
What we need from Strub and others is international solidarity, not trans-Atlantic shrieks of despair.
Got Asylum?
He’s called the thai elián. Phanupong Khaisri, age 3, is a super-cutie rescued from the jaws of death.
Dogma Doo
Islamic delegates threatened a walkout at the United Nation’s historic three-day world assembly on AIDS.
Bad Ad Fad
I sometimes have sex with other guys,” say two new poster dudes for a Bronx-based gay hotline.
Highest Court On Weed: Did the Supreme Court blow smoke about medical marijuana?
Did the Supreme Court blow smoke about medical marijuana?
Obit: Robert C. Randall
Pop of Patient Pot
The Tour de France
Wherever Felix goes, the sun shines.
Center Stage
Dancers’ careers are notoriously brief and catch as catch can.
Drama Queens
Now you can watch full-grown queers act just as deliciously juvenile as the hormonally charged kids on The Real World.
Lipo Ladies
Women earn 78 cents for every buck a man makes, but, hey, girls, you make up for it in…lipo.
Her So Good
Despite its ho-hum title, the new federally funded Guide to the Clinical Care of Women With HIV is the best bet for the bedsides of wise...
Playing for Time
The promising new anti-HIV drug tenofovir DF (disoproxil fumarate) is ready for its FDA close-up.
Herb Blurb
Valerian
Hurry Up, PEP, It’s Time!
It’s no morning-after pill.
Is Less More in Safe-Sex Ed?
Do “behavior modification” strategies aimed at motivating gay men to reduce their risk of contracting STDs work better than a slogan and.....
Combo Condom
A new University of North Carolina study shows that cocktail-taking viral newbies drop to undetectable in two to six months.
Pregger Rap
Survey shows women in HIV belief in AZT dramatically decreasing mom-to-baby transmission
Pocket Money
The FBI suspects that South Dallas Texan AIDS clinic of misspending tens of thousands of federal dollars meant for poor African Americans.
Good Company
African gold-mine giant TauTona announced free HAART to worker with AIDS, paid by parent Anglo American PLC.
20 Years And Counting
Been under a rock? POZ recaps the auspicious anniversary of AIDS
Missing in Action
Bush’s new gay AIDS head is out of sight, out of mind. Doug Ireland asks, Czar No. 4, where are you?
Memo From Hell
The planet’s positive poor are AIDS Inc.’s next boom market. Emily Carter intercepts an internal affair.
Material Girl
Is plastic a positive girl’s best friend? River Huston discovers the wonders (and woes) of retail therapy.
Snap Shots: Joe Westmoreland
The punk rocker-turned-writer has a debut novel, Tramps Like Us, and a new clutter-free life.
