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Table of Contents

Does Your Treatment Fit?

Customizing Your Combo

Almost 20 Years of HIV Meds-and Look at Us Now

Two Treatment Tales


What You're Talking About
The Sound of Stigma (133 comments)

Why Tyler Perry's Temptation Kills Women With HIV (opinion) (36 comments)

Where the Hell Is Our Community? (opinion) (24 comments)

272 Days in Prison (opinion) (15 comments)

Misleading News Reports Suggest HIV Cure Is Near (15 comments)

NYC Mayor Bloomberg Calls Medical Marijuana a Hoax (6 comments)
Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Shingles

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)

What is AIDS & HIV?

Hepatitis & HIV


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Does Your Treatment Fit?
HIV medicine is racing ahead. This issue of POZ Focus asks what’s in it for you—and provides some tools for getting the measurements right.

Customizing Your Combo
by Liz Highleyman
It may be time for a better treatment fit. Grab a handful of straight pins and talk to your tailor, er, doctor about these key issues

Almost 20 Years of HIV Meds-and Look at Us Now
by Liz Highleyman
Retrovir (AZT), the first drug to fight HIV, is approved. It’s a nuke (short for nucleoside analog). But pretty soon it’s clear that by itself, AZT can’t prevent HIV from mutating to get around it.

Two Treatment Tales
by Liz Highleyman
Matt Jennings and Justin Roninger were doing OK on their meds—but felt they could do better. With their doctors’ help, they did.



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