POZ July 2005
POZ July 2005
In every issue, you'll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Feature
Southern Discomfort
41 percent of people with HIV in the U.S., many of them African American, live in the South. But as Alabama's recent aids crisis proves, the r...
Inside the Issue
Hot Type!
Just in time for summer vacation, POZ presents the winners of our Hot Type! literary contest. But brace yourselves: These brutally hones...
The Rath of Con
Vitamin guru Matthias Rath joins South African Leaders to further foil a long delayed HIV-med rollout
Earthwatch
Some 3,500 U.S. HIVers and activists kicked off theCampaign to End AIDS—and their shoes. They
On the March!
POZ's C2EA countdown
Milestones
Bill Clinton snagged the Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions on March 31 f
AIDS Walk of Life
Twenty years after 8,000 soles first shatteredstereotypes by walking Los Angeles’ streets, pow
OOPS, They Did It Again
A trifecta of creepy bureaucratic blunders
Read It and Weep
4parents.gov, the new U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’portal that preaches how to
Legal Eye
I’m in jail and keep having trouble getting my HIV meds. What can I do? Do prisoners have any
Everyone's a Critic
The first national AIDS memorial
POZ Picks
READold-schoolactivist Larry Kramer’s The Tragedy of Today’s Gays (Tarcher, $9.95).This
Brad Pity
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie just can’t get enough of…AIDS advocacy!Last November, four
Aren't You Due for a Vacation?
Drug holidays aren't for everyone—or forever. But a nice, long break can be like summertime for your body and soul. A POZ guide.
Before Packing
Most docs advise you not to start an STI until you’ve been undetectable for a year, with CD4s
Planning by Numbers
• CD4s above 350, premedsHIVspecialists mostly agree: STI success depends on your lowest-everpr
Cleared for Takeoff
Get tested Experts advisea viral-load test. Undetectable? Let the break begin! 1,000 copies ormore?
Staying Healthy on Holiday
Monitoring blood work is essential. Most docs advise checking CD4s andviral load every three months&
Itinerary
Choose from two basic STI timetables. The first: staying off meds until lab numbers or illness requi
Welcome Home
Welcome Home All good things must end, so before the fall frost creeps in, warm up to your new regim
The Scoop on Ice Cream
When summer makes you scream for ice cream, don’t let lactose intolerance or high cholesterol,
You Gotta Move It
This easy exercise may not cure lipo's butt wasting, but 10 a day (in front of the TV, on the phone, etc.) can help spruce your caboose:
Zip 'Em Up
As a jazz pianist, I travel frequently, with rehearsals and performances dominating my schedule.
2 Is The Loneliest Number
Martell Randolph, a Los Angeles activist, spends hours surrounded by other HIVers.
C Note
A third of U.S. HIVers are coinfected with hep C (HCV)—most with tough-to-treat genotype 1.
New Kaletra, Nice to Meet Ya
In early May, the FDA approved once-daily dosing of Abbott’s powerhouseprotease inhibitor (PI)
Zerit Dosing
A French study tried lowering 66 HIVers’ doses of the nuke Zerit (d4T) by 10 mg a dose to see
Take it From the Experts
How to cope with side effects? More meds, fewer meds, no meds...and humor
Forbidden Fruit
Hello, my name is River and I'm a sugarholic
Altared State
When I walk down the aisle this summer, will I look like I have HIV?
Inside Job
Why an ex-con is pushing condoms on Arnold's House
Publisher's Letter
As the publisher of POZ and other health information—and as a new first-time mom—I think about health all the time. Mine, my famil...
