POZ January 2003
POZ January 2003
In every issue, you'll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Feature
Global Fund and Games
Only a year after its happy, shiny launch, the first united fund -- and last hope -- to control the AIDS catastrophe is nearly bankrupt. And...
Inside the Issue
My Clementina
Back in Disco Frisco, frisky young men would pack the VD clinic with a name like a goldminer's whore, giving blood to crack a dread new dise...
Your $5 Buys...
Five applicants explain what a difference a fund makes
Three's Company
...but is a triple-nuke combination enough crowd to stop HIV? Tim Murphy probes Trizivir, the trendy three-in-one pill that...might
HPVAX
Merck's vaccine pipeline is a gusher! Last year its therapeutic HIV vax made headlines. Now, in D
Free Lunch
Empty pockets don’t have to mean empty medicine cabinets. Check out the Access Project (www.at
A Pox Upon Ye!
Last fall, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) made waves when it recommended a voluntary smallpox
MAC Attack!
Take a crowd of HIVers with MAC (Mycobacterium avium complex) -- one of AIDS' nastiest opportunistic
Booster Goes Bust
At Chiron Corporation, business is business for a landmark interleukin-2 (IL-2) study. In October, t
Hep C Help
If you're tired of feeling like a human pin cushion from thrice-weekly injections of alpha interfero
Is That a Protein in Your...?
Reaching undetectable on HAART lessens your risk of transmitting HIV, but not to zero -- even for wo
Editor's Letter
I was on www.m4m4sex.com last Saturday at 2 a.m., instant-messaging with Everbaltop. "I know about 2
Mailbox
It's Supplemental, My DearThank you for a very valuable story on HIV vitamins and supplements ["Toug
Our Virtual Saint
Why did the HIV-info lifeline, www.aegis.org, go dark last fall? Sister Mary Elizabeth explains it all
How's Sean's Health?
Two years after his last POZ blab, our longtime survivor goes head-to-head with his longtime doc on everything from drug holidays to hai...
Just Say Low(ER)
Heads up, HIV vets: In October, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an official warning ab
Free Lunch
Empty pockets don't have to mean empty medicine cabinets. Check out the Access Project (
P24
While some may shriek at the idea of exporting the West’s problematic med tech to the Third Wo
Hair
Are you absorbing enough of your HIV combo? Check your hair, say Swiss docs, who were shocked that t
30%
of the nation’s newly infected are injection drug–users. The U.S.’ first medical f
800%
That’s how many more times decreased libido, erectile dysfunction and impaired ejaculation wer
The 2002 POZCARS
For performances dashing, dastardly, and dubious in the still-crazy-after-all-these-years of AIDS...and you don't have to dig out that damn re...
