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Table of Contents

Talking 'Bout Their Generation

Youth to Youth

Bargaining Power

Growing Up in Public

Liver Worst

Family Tree

Blood Lines

S.O.S.

To the Editor

And on the 7th Day...

In the Sack

Vertex Vortex

Pump and Grind

Baby Gap

You Can’t Touch This

Aloe Can You Go?

Death by Bureaucracy

Bubonic Tonic

Say What

Say What

All Apologies

Plenty of Nothing

Rough Cuts

POZ Picks

Spin and Needles

No Miss Manners

HIV Confidential

Making a Scene

Obits

Presidential Nemesis

Are the Kids Alright?

Kid Gloves

Prime-Time Lives

Don’t Make Me Over

Confessions of a Jerk

Life Lessons

Quality Time

Valuable Kitchen Tool

Better Safe Than Sushi

The Heart of the Matter

To C or Not to C

The Circle Game

Youth on Drugs

Uncertain-teens

Making the Grade

Finger on the Pulses

Fountain of Youth

Where to find it

Reality Check

Leftovers



Most Talked About

Mandatory HIV Tests Before Marriage? (20)

Ready to Quit? The Risks and Rewards of a Potent Smoking-Cessation Drug (18)

In Memory of Jesse Helms, and The Condom On His House (Blog) (18)

Has Bush “Done More” to Fight AIDS Than Any Other President? (13)

Hormonally Challenged (8)

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 1998


Aloe Can You Go?

by Gabi Horn

Peddler pushes plant’s perks

Aloe vera may soothe a sunburn, but cure AIDS? That’s what Baltimore businessman Allen Hoffman professed, and now he’s being charged with consumer fraud for allegedly peddling the plant as an “almost 100 percent effective” cure for AIDS.

Prosecutors accused Hoffman of making “bogus” claims about the safety and effectiveness of his aloe vera– based product, T-UP. He not only told consumers that he had a PhD, but that T-UP was developed by Johns Hopkins researchers and approved by the FDA. (The intravenous use of aloe vera is illegal in the United States). “This is the most egregious [fraud] I’ve seen,” said Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. “These are the nineties version of snake-oil salesmen.”  


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