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Table of Contents

Standing in the Shadows of Love

The Great Doctor / Patient Face-Off

Mailbox

Boy Talk

Girl Talk

Name Recognition

Dynamic Duos

Work That Visit!

It Takes a Villager

Urinetown

Devil in a Blue Dress

U.S. Armed Cervixes

Cell Culture

Milestones

Class Act

Good Book

Rape OutRAGE

It Happened in September

Hitting the Switch

Missed Doses

Overexposed

Count Down

Tailgating HIV

20%

Potty Mouth

Booty Call

London Calling

Test Drive

Aid for Medicaid

Editor's Letter

Lei'd in the Shade

The Wings Beneath His Wind



Most Talked About

Has George W. Bush “Done More” to Fight AIDS Than Any Other President? (17)

Are Millions Becoming HIV Positive Because Of ACT UP Paris? (Blog) (15)

Service Interruption: Jeremiah Johnson (10)

Stealing HIV Meds to Mix With Marijuana (8)

Red Cross Declares HIV a Global Disaster (7)

Most Popular Lessons

Herpes Simplex Virus

Syphilis & Neurosyphilis

Shingles

The HIV Life Cycle

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV)

Treatments for Opportunistic Infections (OIs)



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September 2003


Missed Doses

by Staff

Due to poor adherence, HAART may not work for about 50 percent of HIVers, according to docs at a

Due to poor adherence, HAART may not work for about 50 percent of HIVers, according to docs at a confab in May. And HIVers aren’t alone: In one study, only half of health care pros on a month of PEP were able to adhere to dosing schedules. Stigma (keeps you from pulling out your pills at a dinner party), depression and fear of lipo are obstacles to adherence, the docs said. And those on public assistance fail to refill 'scrpis for HIV meds because they've had it up to here with bureaucratic BS.

What helps? Docs telling patients about dosing choices, patients talking back about adherence problems. Can you say "communicate"?


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