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Table of Contents

One Tough Pirate



Seeing the Future

Mentors-May 2006

Medicine Men




Custom Care

Early Birds

Simply Irresistible

The Topic of Cancer

Sow Your Oats

Trainer’s Bench-May 2006

Hustle and Flow

Animal Attraction

Purrrfect Health

Women on Top

PEP Rally

POZ Personals Catch of the Month-May 2006

First Aid for Your Medicaid

Shall We Dance?




A Will & Grace-full Exit?

Ratings for a Serial Virus

Squeaky Clean?

Prescription For Change

Bono’s Red Alert

One Hot ASO

Banned Aid

It’s Not You; It’s Me

Near Dead Again




Editor's Letter-May 2006

Mailbox-May 2006


Most Talked About

Has George W. Bush “Done More” to Fight AIDS Than Any Other President? (19)

Does Undetectable Equal Uninfectious? (18)

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

Service Interruption: Jeremiah Johnson (12)

Stealing HIV Meds to Mix With Marijuana (10)

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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May 2006


PEP Rally

by Lucile Scott

Post-exposure prophylaxis may block HIV infection for a larger squad

Since the late ’90s, some people have been advised to pop Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (PEP) within 72 hours of suspected HIV contact to prevent infection. Folks may be able to take PEP up to two weeks after exposure, according to preliminary data released by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) in February. “People are still under the illusion that if they don’t get PEP within 72 hours, it isn’t worth trying.

This isn’t true,” said a BASHH spokesperson. PEP, a four-week regimen of antiretrovirals, is CDC approved, though often hard to locate in the U.S. Inquire at a local AIDS service organization, ask your doc or stop by an AIDS-savvy hospital or health clinic to PEP up.    

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