POZ June 2007
POZ June 2007
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Features
Jagged Little Pills
Some drugs approved to treat HIV may also protect people not infected with HIV if taken before they engage in high-risk activities.
Happy Feet
Two HIV-positive marathoners, Robert Benavidez and David Villegas, don’t let the virus keep them from going the extra mile.
Bunny Business
How Jeffrey Jenest, HIV positive for more than 20 years and openly gay, found his niche amid the relentlessly straight, sometimes triple-X..
Living
Playing the Percentages
Combo therapy applies to lab numbers as well as meds
Soul Survivors
Fat loss can hurt more than your self-image. A foot soldier’s story.
B Careful
A Hepatitis B med may breed HIV drug resistance.
In the Running
New drugs and whole new class wowed in the 2007 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI).
Seeing Double
Treatments for hepatitis C begin to mimic those for HIV
Write of Passage
Author Shawn Decker recalls how he grew up with HIV while his POZ readers were watching.
Salad Daze
Nutritional dream or nightmare? It all depends on what you put in the bowl.
From Here to Paternity
More and more positive men want children—and are finding that they can make them using their own genetic goods.
Summer Share
The thing about sailing is the quiet.I live in New York City, where it is always noisy.
Talking
Papa, Can You Hear Me?
Jenna Bush’s new book about AIDS may sound suspiciously like Dad’s same old policies.
Outside Chance
Raising the bar on released inmates’ treatment
Send Us the Bill
Congress vs. better health care for positive people
Climb Every Mountain
For this brave breed of HIV-positive mountaineers, the only way is up.
Farewell Tour
A new CD won’t let AIDS silence composers.
Hot Dates-June 2007
SisterSong’s conference is set to gab in Chicago. It promotes sexual empowerment for women of color, with topics including erotica and...
Agent Provocateur
Most safe-sex campaigns shy away from showing sex.
Mixed
The late Beowulf Thorne and Tom Shearer, founders of ’90s HIV zine DPN–Diseased Pariah News, were hardly ones to shy away from controversy...
Another AIDS Movie for Philadelphia
But for 2007, the plotline’s strictly on the down low.
Say What?!-June 2007
“Let me find out. I’m sure I’ve taken a position on it on [sic] the past.”
Attention, K-Y Shoppers
Does your lubricant have you on a slippery slope toward HIV risk?
The Next Best Thing to Being There
Sponsoring a child abroad gets a thoroughly modern online update.
Getting Crafty
South African youth are sewing up answers to poverty and HIV.
Baggage Claim
As Angelica finally meets her hot overseas Web date, who’s the bigger flight risk?
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Editor’s Letter-June 2007
Speaking of Sex...
Mailbox-June 2007
Thanks for David Thorpe’s article “Filling Station” (February/March 2007) about lipoatrophy treatment.
Catch of the Month—June 2007
What are your best qualities? My optimism, my ability to be open and try new things.
