POZ May 2006
POZ May 2006
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Features
Seeing the Future
The news from the frontier of HIV/AIDS treatment gets better all the time.
Mentors-May 2006
HIV rookie Craig Smith asks veteran Denise Drayton, who contracted the virus while working as an AIDS educator, about how to handle...
Medicine Men
Six years after Peter Staley and Tim Horn brought HIV treatment into the digital domain with AIDSmeds.com, the website is now one of the...
Living
Custom Care
HIV causes African Americans unique health problems that demand specific treatment approaches. Here, POZ shares a few.
Early Birds
Starting treatment sooner may control HIV—and side effects
Simply Irresistible
Long-termers look to new med combos to battle resistance
The Topic of Cancer
Staying on HIV meds during treatment for lymphoma increases your chance of surviving the cancer, reports a small study in the April 1...
Sow Your Oats
A breakfast to lick HIV’s lumps
Trainer’s Bench-May 2006
Lift yourself
Hustle and Flow
How to stay fluid while you’re feeling the burn
Animal Attraction
How pets can teach positive owners to heal
Purrrfect Health
Protect yourself from pet-borne infections
Women on Top
An HIV gel slides toward FDA approval
PEP Rally
Post-exposure prophylaxis may block HIV infection for a larger squad
POZ Personals Catch of the Month-May 2006
And the craziest place you’ve ever had sex? In an empty warehouse in New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
First Aid for Your Medicaid
Save your coverage from the new state and federal billion-dollar budget cuts
Shall We Dance?
Standing in two giggling lines, boys facing girls, we waited.
Talking
A Will & Grace-full Exit?
As America’s favorite gay TV show signs off, POZ asks why HIV didn’t make prime time.
Ratings for a Serial Virus
African soap operas tune in to AIDS prevention
Squeaky Clean?
Undercover at LA’s steamiest bathhouses
Prescription For Change
Bashing generic promises
Bono’s Red Alert
Try his latest AIDS-fighting scheme on for size
One Hot ASO
The Caribbean connection makes a splash
Banned Aid
Voting to abstain
It’s Not You; It’s Me
Is Angelica dating positive men or her own desperate reflection?
Near Dead Again
Joe Westmoreland finds that cheating death ain’t what it used to be
etc.
Editor’s Letter-May 2006
A Dirty Little Secret
Mailbox-May 2006
I was touched by your decision to put Nashville’s Marvelyn Brown, a 21-year-old positive activist, on the cover of your January 2006 issue.
