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Table of Contents


Publisher's Letter


Mailbox

Sex Ed’s Rubber Rubout

PREPing For Sex

On Me, Not Inn Me

Out Of Data

MTV Goes CDC

I Go Shout Plenty

Class Pictures

Obituary

Time Out

Bill Me Later

Neg/Pos

Natal Attraction

Milestones

Wall Of Controversy

Shades Of Gray

Give Me Fever

Bad Meds

Hot And Bothered

Pass The Scalpel—And The Bucks

Northern Exposure

Cell Low, Cell High

Pillow Talk

Neg (-) But (+) For Lipo

A New Gay Plague?

Hard Workin’ Beans

Viread, Once A Wonder Drug

It's His Party

Out Of Sight

The Truth About Cats And Dogs (& A Horse And A Bird)

Getting’ Hot In Here

The Big Bang Theory

Walk This Way


Most Talked About

Does Undetectable Equal Uninfectious? (21)

Just Found Out? A POZ.com Guide for HIV Rookies (11)

The Blood of Christ (a powerful one-man AIDS protest) (Blog) (9)

The State of AIDS in Puerto Rico (9)

Rethinking Criminalization of HIV (8)

Life Expectancy With HIV Increases Dramatically (6)

Most Popular Lessons

The HIV Life Cycle

Herpes Simplex Virus

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Shingles

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)


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July / August 2003


Bill Me Later

by Suzy Martin

Perhaps you remember the $15 billion President Bush pledged to the global AIDS fight in his State of the Union address back in January. Well, if you thought it was already hard at work feeding Africa’s AIDS orphans, showering people with condoms and treating a promised two million HIVers, think again. At press time, Congress was gearing up for battle royale over who should control the bucks—the U.S. State Department or the Global AIDS Fund, “an international umbrella group that President Bush helped found but that he now seems to have cooled on,” the Washington Post editorialized. An early House version of the bill hopes for $1 billion for the Fund in fiscal 2004—besting Bush’s boast of the same amount over five years.

Stalled by a harrowing chastity-and-monogamy debate in the GOP-led House International Relations Committee, the bill dodged amendments that would have dumped condoms in favor of abstinence. El prez gave it a boost when he shocked all by pushing for its passage without the Christian right’s blessing. But even if some version passes, hold your applause. The cash won’t reach HIVers until 2005, at the earliest
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