POZ February-March 2007
POZ February-March 2007
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Features
The View: Eric Brun-Sanglard, an HIV positive interior designer, lost his sight 11 years ago. But when he got his own reality TV show...
Eric Brun-Sanglard, an HIV positive interior designer, lost his sight 11 years ago. But when he got his own reality TV show...
Status Seekers: Is picking sex partners of same HIV status the safe way to condomless pleasure or is it risky self-segregation?
Is picking sex partners of same HIV status the safe way to condomless pleasure or is it risky self-segregation?
Mentors-Feb/March 2007
Fat deposits, sunken cheeks: Body-shifting side effects can break your bank and your spirit.
Living
Filling Station: To replace the facial fat that some HIV meds steal, some positive people countenance a permanent fix
To replace the facial fat that some HIV meds steal, some positive people countenance a permanent fix.
Behind Every Good Woman?
A common infection sneaks up from the rear
How the Other Half Lives
Will gender-changing hormones neuter your HIV regimen?
Juiced
After 24 years of living with HIV, I know that I can’t rely on drugs alone—vital as they are.
Reyataz: Out With the Two Old, and In With One New
If you’ve been on a combo that includes two 150 mg capsules of Reyataz (atazanavir) a day, your next refill may seem a bit skimpy.
Ask the Sexpert-Feb/March 2007
A serodiscordant couple asks our sexpert about the guilt that can come from irrational fears of transmission.
Clap Trap
Gonorrhea’s most surprising hiding place: your throat
In the House
On the dance floor, HIV positive black gay men find spiritual healing through house music.
Pay It Forward
In the rush to diagnose and treat Americans who don’t know they’re HIV positive, who’ll be stuck with the check?
Health By Chocolate
How to have your candy and eat it too
Heart Condition
I fall in love constantly. I’m 25, after all. And a fine black brother. And a poet.
Talking
Saved by the Belly
After a positive diagnosis, belly dancing boosts self esteem-—at the gut level.
Party Games
Should people living with HIV pin all their political and personal hopes on the newly Democratic congressional majority?
Discomfort Inn
A subsidized AIDS housing crisis hits New York and the nation
Disobedience School
How to override a global patent
Styx and Stones
The HIV positive bassist for Styx takes on Top 40 disclosure
Parental Guidance
Helping AIDS orphans head their households
Oral Majority
It’s 8 a.m., and patients shuffle into the Columbia Oral Health Clinic in South Carolina wearing a familiar look of dread.
Office Flirt
If Angelica can’t date her doc, maybe he can fix her up with a replacement.
Who’s the Boss
Spencer Cox has survived HIV—but can he survive the manager from hell?
etc.
Ed Letter-Feb/March 2007
Sorting It Out
Mailbox-Feb/March 2007
I was stunned to read Jim Huntting’s column “I’m Outta Here” (November 2006).
Catch of the Month-Feb/March 2007
And your biggest turn-off? Men who spit. It’s so unsanitary. And the sound! Unappealing.
