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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

AIDS: Not a Heterosexual Disease? (46)

The Greatest Gay Rights Battle of Our Time (Blog) (19)

Lambda Legal Responds to HIV Spitting Conviction (19)

Ready to Quit? The Risks and Rewards of a Potent Smoking-Cessation Drug (17)

Mandatory HIV Tests Before Marriage? (15)

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


Quality Time

by Bob Lederer

It’s a cliché that adults tend to forget what it was like to be young. But for care providers who serve adolescents with HIV, it’s even more crucial that they check their prejudices at the door. Bad enough that, as reported on page 108, “nearly half of adolescent visits with doctors last less than 10 minutes”—inadequate time for good care, let alone risk-reduction education. Worse, even that meager time—and longer sessions with social workers, psychologists and counselors—is too often spent lecturing rather than listening, exercising authority rather than empowering. Yet for young people with HIV, it’s just that type of respect, understanding and support that can make all the difference.

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