POZ June 2003
POZ June 2003
In every issue, you'll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Feature
Wish You Were Here?
Beyond the beaches and beautiful people lies a gritty mix of gays, blacks and Hispanics haggling for funds to fight the highest AIDS rates in...
Inside the Issue
Hitt and Run
When a towering figure in AIDS medicine and activism admits he had sex with a patient, it raises questions about the special bond between HIVe...
A Kennedy Goes Global
Rory Kennedy, RFK's youngest, talks to Sean Strub about bringing world AIDS home in her docu-film Pandemic...and what she really thinks about...
Clubbing
An HIVer got a fourth strike in March, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a minor, nonviolent of
Iraq, War & HIV
As POZ goes to press, U.S.-led forces and Saddam Hussein’s die-hards are in a death battle for
Follow the Diva
“I know George W. Bush's best friend, which doesn't mean he's like Bush-they couldn't be more opposite...”
POX and All
Fearing biological attack, the U.S. military has vaccinated “multiple tens of thousands”
ADAP to Feds: $ ASAP
Feds to HIVers: Hurry up and wait
The TAC Offensive
On South Africa’s Human Rights Day—honoring thousands of blacks arrested in non-violent
Pos & Neg
POSUniversity of Texas scientists have nabbed a nasty protein, alias CD63, which sneaks HIV into so
Trendspotting
PWAs in the U.S. are living longer than ever, and the number of people with an AIDS diagnosis has ri
Dig That Pipeline!
A big buzz-maker at this year's Retrovirus confab? The HIV-meds pipeline is fuller than it's been in a loooong time.
Dem Dere Eyes
They’re called the windows to the soul, but the eyes can also be a trouble spot for HIVers.
Life Inside With C
Sure, HIV’s prevalent in prison, says Ernesto Lamadrid, MD, of Florida’s Lowell/Marion C
That Bouncing Bug!
Baseline. Set point. Rebound. HIV docs throw these words around, but they’re not sports talk.
Well, G Whiz!
Any HIVer with hepatitis C would love to “clear” it. But many may also have GBV-C, the hep C look-alike and that one you may want to keep.
Smears For Straights?
A Paris study looked at 50 hetero male HIVers who said they had shot up but never taken it up th
Kentucky Fried Friendship
Michael Thompson had no formal training feeding PWAs (other than himself) when he and several
Soak 'N' Snooze
Meds have kept me healthy, so I haven’t had much to complain about for the 13 years I’ve
Markdown for the Count
Tracking HIV progression (and whether or not you need meds) starts with tabulating T cells. But CD4
Mailbox
Love's The CureThank you for including women over 50 in your one-time-only personal ads [“The
Thirtysomething...else
Ex-poster boy Brett VanBenschoten advances from activism to academia-and disavows what he said about discordance
