POZ April 2005
POZ April 2005
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Feature
Absolutely Andy
As far as pop-star AIDS activism goes, Erasure frontman Andy Bell is no Bono.
Inside the Issue
Work With Me!
On my back-to-work plans! My health benefits! My disability provider! Forget meds--these are the issues that can drive HIVers mad.
Bushed To The Limit
Meet the four Bible-thumpers setting second-term U.S. AIDS policy
Don’t Cry for Me, Preventionista
Republican Senate Majority Leader-and doctor-Bill Frist flunks HIV
Legal Eye
I saw a liposuction doctor about removing my buffalo hump, but he said he did not do the procedure for HIVers.
Milestones
Prison activist HIVer Judy Ricci, 44, died from a November 30 asthma attack, six months after her release.
The Rubber Report
With the feds funding false information about condoms, running reliable rubber info is increasingly a political act.
Tiny Toons
Every Tom, Dick and Harry should meet Shaft, Dick and Stretch.
Saving Lives-or Face?
Did Feds fudge data on an African AIDS study?
On The March
More than 125 top HIVers and advocates from around the country (including POZ founder Sean Strub) hit Washington in January to plot a...
Booked & Noted
Let your AIDS intellect blossom with our spring reading list
Vax Is Back
Is a new Vaccine our best shot at controlling HIV without meds?
One a Day: You’ve Come A Long Way
Two companies team up to deliver an HIV regimen of just one pill once daily
Diabetes and HIV
Sugar woes can sour treatment plans
Lentil Health Day
You’ve probably heard that complex carbs, such as lentil beans, outrank simple ones like white potatoes, rice and bread.
April Showers
HIV meds leave my skin so dry and itchy that I’ve been known to claw my legs bloody.
Office Visit
We eavesdrop as one HIVer and his doc fit diabetes into the treatment plan.
Not A Gym Bunny?
Exercise helps prevent or control diabetes by keeping glucose from accumulating in your blood.
Generics Hit Home
Last December, the FDA gave Barr Laboratories approval to sell the U.S.’ first generic HIV med, didanosine delayed-release capsules, the...
Why...
...does your doc add small Norvir doses to boost another protease inhibitor (PI)?
Founder’s Letter
According to its website the AIDS Action Council is, “the national voice on AIDS,” and, indeed, it has some claim to that title.
Mailbox
BloYour article on David Randall’s effort to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro sparked my interest because I’m a lifelong climber.
Cabin Fever
Do the villagers think I’m spreading HIV? Or am I just crazy?
Woman To Woman
Sometimes you find you’re not the only nice suburban girl with a secret
Holy Makeover!
An HIVer beautifies her flock-body and soul
