POZ June 2006
POZ June 2006
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Features
Jazzed
After a two-decade disappearance Grammy nominee Andy Bey, 66, croons his way into a new life—and a huge new audience—despite HIV.
Mentors-June 2006
Before sending out an office memo declaring that you’re positive, there’s a lot to consider.
A Growing Concern
Twenty-five years after doctors discovered the disease, the AIDS epidemic continues to spread, unchecked, even where we least expect it...
Cover Q&A-June 2006
There’s a lot of homophobia, politics and patronizing in the business.
Living
Supplemental Insurance
Nutritional supplements play a hefty supporting role in many HIV regimens
Oral Thursh Knockout
A new med may keep an old infection from making a comeback
Med-Mix Warning
Three recent cases suggest that Reyataz (atazanavir) boosted with Norvir (ritonavir) may raise blood levels of buprenorphine, an opiate...
Chow, Babe
Why you must eat with some HIV meds but have to take others on an empty stomach
Tart Up Your PI
Could a grapefruit juice compound squeeze out Norvir’s boost?
Food for Oil
Tired of pills, oils and seeds? Get your omega-3s on a plate.
Fatty Acid Trip
Our tasters swig and rate six sources of heart-happy omega-3 oils
In the Key of Life
Score one for HIV music therapy
PREP School
Why the HIV negative take ARVs
PREP for the future
Can popping prevention help?
WAL-MART Special
Would the conservative-policy-prone Wal-Mart nearest you (think dirty-lyric-bleeped albums) voluntarily sell Viread if it passes as PREP?
Bush the Builder
His 2007 budget boosts funding for HIV housing
The Domino Effect
A glossy mag rehabs an AIDS community
Happy Birthday to Us
This June, I turn 39. As I creep ever upward in years, I am tempted to lie about my age.
Talking
Can NYC Keep A Lid On AIDS?
Civil rights vs. public health in the city’s aggressive new HIV testing proposal
Virgin Vaccine
The abstinence lobby arms against a maiden STD treatment
Onward Christian Condoms
A faith-based group rethinks abstinence
Earthwatch
For the third year in its 28-year existence, the U.S. State Department’s Country Reports on Human Rights Practices included HIV-related...
Raining Men
Gay Sex in the 70s
Positive Change
Are PWAs Finally Returning to Key ASO Roles?
Growing Pains
25 years after HIV first hit America, POZ takes a fearless look at the viral census.
Dolled Up
World-famous transsexual personality Amanda Lepore paired with fashion designer Jason Wu to create a Lepore action figure to fight AIDS.
That ’80s Show
River Huston flashdances her way back to an era before she had HIV
I See Dead People
Spencer Cox resurrects happiness by recalling those who are gone
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Editor’s Letter-June 2006
We Are the World
Mailbox-June 2006
I just finished reading “Love Yourself” (February/March 2006), by Michael Smith.
