Longtime Companion
by Ronnilyn Pustil
Michael Gottlieb was at AIDS ground zero in 1981. Today the good
doctor is still standing -- and still leading the pack in patient care.
Ronnilyn Pustil gets the goods from the guy who gave us GRID, grit and
great heart.
Generation AIDS
by Tom Beer
Liz Murray, age 20, wasn't born with AIDS -- but with two positive
parents, she certainly grew up with it. Tom Beer explores the story of Generation AIDS.
How They Shot AIDS: A Viral Video Roundup & Takedown
by Shana Naomi Krochmal
At 20, the epidemic is a Hollywood has-been. Greg Villepique reruns AIDS' tearjerkers and not-so-moving pictures -- from And the Band Played On to Zero Patience -- to find a few pearls in the popcorn
Words to Live By
by Staff POZ staffers dug through their at-home libraries and dusted off the tomes most likely to stand the test of time.
Memento Mori
by Esther Kaplan
An exhibit looks back on the epidemic through its ephemera. Esther
Kaplan speaks with two keepers of the flame, who hope their "living"
archive lights some new fires.
Two decades, countless dead, no cure. What now? POZ asked seven friends for their thoughts on the birthday that was never meant to be.
Birth of a Notion
by Anne-christine d'Adesky
Anne-christine d'Adesky slips inside the drug pipeline to shine
light on a dazzling new promise for "salvage" therapy. So hold onto
your hope, beware the hype -- here comes The Next Big Thing.
About Face
by Lark Lands
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the cheekiest of us all? Lark Lands on the new "sugar" shots for facial wasting.
Life After Birth
by Anne-christine d'Adesky
Anne-christine d'Adesky on mom's little helper: a placenta protein promising a new entry blocker
Serostim Sabotaged!
by Julie Hantman
In a chilling first-ever, counterfeiters strike at a U.S. AIDS drug. Julie Hantman asks whodunit.
As Chardelle Lassiter asks The Big Question (to HAART or not), she demands that doc r-e-s-p-e-c-t her choice.
The Right Angle
by Doug Ireland
What will AIDS activists really find behind the Bushes? Doug Ireland gets the inside dope from the Right guy
Hotline Help Me!
by Emily Carter
Fielding calls from the well worried, Emily Carter finds that years of HIV info is fleeting, while sexual shame is forever
Under My Skin
by Lillian Thiemann
Injecting AIDS meds may cause ex-junkie jitters and even mess with
sobriety. Lillian Thiemann has just the thing to get you off pins and
needles and back on point
Songs In The Key Of Life
by Bob Lederer
Forget the made-for-TV Survivor -- AIDS makes frying rats for dinner
seem like fine dining. Three long-term survivors tell Bob Lederer how
they made a miracle