POZ March 2008
POZ March 2008
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Features
The Long Haul
America’s 2 million long-haul truckers are entrusted with delivering our meds, clothing and food.
Native Soul
Kory Montoya, a New Mexico Apache, was diagnosed with HIV in 1991. Here he marks National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, March 20, by telling...
Living
The POZ Diabetes Diet Makeover
A mealtime plan to handle diabetes and HIV in one easy serving
Quitting Time
Trying to stop smoking? Ear magnets might work while a pill faces problems.
Boosting Immunity
Can a cancer drug double as an HIV therapy?
Caffeine Fix
A medical study has found benefit in something we like drinking.
Staph Memo
Obsessing over the latest “superbug”? Relax: You can keep your body clean of infection.
Same Sheets, Different Day
How to manage your health insurance forms without a long paper trail
Consider the Alternative
AIDS has affected my entire adult life. I’m pretty sure I’ve had HIV since 1986, when I was 18.
Talking
Flunking Math
Tallying people who live with HIV can leave the community down for the count.
Test Drive
The CDC vs. the states in routine HIV testing
Stage Fright
A Broadway strike muzzles HIV fund-raising efforts.
The New 90210?
A gay African-American TV series takes sex in the city to a new, more HIV-savvy demo.
Post It!
The pink triangle vs. gun deaths
Nobody’s Foo
The University of Utah’s student newspaper recently printed AIDS-related statements attributed to rock band Foo Fighters front man...
Media Police
A volunteer force of doctors, scientists and activists, AIDSTruth.org has been policing global media for what it considers faulty AIDS...
HIV 101
In an era when half of all new HIV infections occur among people under 25, The Complete HIV/AIDS Teaching Kit helps high school and...
Boston Latex
This past fall, ABC’s court drama Boston Legal heralded the condom as “the single most important invention of the past 2,000 years” when...
Getting Graphic
A novel redraws HIV.
Power Surge
Collin Burke, a high school senior from Madison, Wisconsin, says he took art class “by accident.”
Inside the Box
The Art in a Box program exports self-esteem to positive kids globally.
Diagnosis: Stigma
Annette Lizzul finds discrimination in the one place she thought she was safe.
etc.
The NAPWA/TAEP HIV/AIDS Policy Report
FY 2008 Appropriations
Mailbox-March 2008
I must first commend POZ for an excellent November issue, especially the feature “The South Shall Rise Again,” about AIDS in the American....
Editor’s Letter-March 2008
Tribal Council
