POZ May 2003
POZ May 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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Children of a Lesser God
In the late-80’s state of terror, 10,000 Romanian babies were carelessly infected with HIV and left to die.
Inside the Issue
Virgin With A Vengeance
No sooner was Erika Harold crowned Miss America 2003 than she came out as an AIDS activist-of the abstinence-only ilk.
Liver and Let Live
When an HIVer dies these days, it’s likely due to a down-and-out liver...and only Larry Kramer can get a shiny new one, right?
Submission: Impossible
How an Iowa grandma with HIV went to Indonesia to nurse civil-war victims, got caught behind the rebel lines, nearly died in jail, was...
Now They C It
Prisoners—including many HIVers—may finally get the hepatitis C care their high rates of infection require.
Drug Trade
GlaxoSmithKline has stopped doing business with all Canadian pharmacies selling Glaxo meds to U.S. buyers via the Internet.
Insecurity Council
Bush’s antigay AIDS advisors get the boot
Lady Buggers
First-ever proof of lesbian transmission?
Latest Battles On Latex
Condom Crusaders vs. Abstinence Ayatollahs, Round two: Is there any love for the embattled glove?
Knock, Knock
Will two studies in January’s Sexually Transmitted Diseases fuel fans of HIV partner-notification (PN)?
Milestones
Irene Diamond, legendary benefactress of David Ho, MD, and his New York City–based Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, died January 21 at 92
Leap of Faith
MLK’s example spurs churches to talk HIV
Sunshine Therapy
Remember pre-protease America, when countless PWAs staked their survival on crystals, funky diets and pushy New Age personalities?
AIDS Lyrics
Theory of Devolution, David Groff’s impressive first volume of poetry, tracks HIV from crisis to epidemic to...
Love Songs
“I’ve been a nightmare, a tragi-comedy, a raging/ drum solo.“
It Takes Tube
Can Viacom counter AIDS apathy the way TV tackled the issues of this sistah’s 80’s youth?
Pot Shot
Is Ed Rosenthal the Rosa Parks of pot-smokers?
Show Us the Money
On the eve of war, President Bush delivered a State of the Union address that took many by surprise for its five-year, $15 billion...
It Happened in May
1991: Tony Kushner’s AIDSepic, Angels in America, later a Pulitzer- and Tony-winning hit, opened at San Francisco’s Eureka Theater.
Guru Gere“Gotcha??
Feted for AIDS advocacy (along with Vogue’s Anna Wintour) at Mathilde Krim’s celeb-studded
Take This Mug and Stuff It
Want your pre-lipo face back? You have options—though few are approved, none are perfect and all cost plenty. Still interested? Thought so.
The Rub
UCSD researchers massaged the prostates of four guys on HAART with undetectable virus in their blood and semen...
Big Easy
Too sick to work—but scared that applying for Social Security Disability (SSD) benefits will tie you up in a terminal case of red tape?
Doctor Shocker!
Is your doctor as clueless about HIV drug resistance as most appear to be?
Warts and All
Half of all viral vixens in the U.S. have the sexually transmitted human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes three-quarters of all cervical..
On Your Feet
Want your honey hangin’ round your hang-10s? Well, then, you’d better dote on those dogs.
Brains, Not Beauty
The annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections is a weeklong data-dump of the year’s top HIV research.
Math Hysteria
Someone please tell me just what the $%#*@ these labcoat-type terms mean.
Main Squeeze
If HIV is a full-time job for you (it is for me), mark your appointment book right now for a date with a massage therapist.
14%
That’s how many HIV positive black men are 40 and up—and if you’re one, it’s time for a prostate-cancer screening.
Treat and Run
José ignored his “smoker’s cough” for months before biting the bullet, getting tested and diagnosed with active tuberculosis (TB) and H...
Double Agent
If the Hatfields and McCoys found some kin in common, would they lock up their shotguns?
Unhappy Together
Docs are increasingly noting that the anti-C drug ribavirin ups the risk of pancreas and lactate woes already linked to HIV nuke Videx.
A Fish Called Tuna
Has HAART maxed out your cholesterol? Time to, uh, scale it down.
Risk and Tell
When is it safe to talk about not-so-safe- sex? River Houston dares to pull back the covers.
Tell and Risk
She said three little words he didn’t want to hear. Then he said three little words she did.
Mailbox
From the point of view of scaling up treatment access, Stephanie Nolen [“Global Fund and Games,” January 2003] says all the right things.
Editor’s Letter
The 20th anniversary of the Denver Principles is upon us, and I had hoped to celebrate it here. Have you heard of the Denver Principles?
Star Billings
With her diva turn in this month’s Romy and Michele pre-quel, Alexandra Billings makes history as the tube’s first true tranny.
