Advertisement

POZ November 1998

POZ November 1998

In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.

Also Available On:

ISSUU

Feature

Organizing Inside

Inmates have emerged as their own best AIDS educators and advocates. Why don’t prison wardens, ASOs and health departments get it?

Inside the Issue

light shining through bars of prison window

Concealed Weapon

PWA Greg Smith is serving 25 years for attempted murder. His crime? Allegedly biting a corrections officer.

POZ Magazine

Long Day’s Journey

From Far Rockaway to Sing Sing, the children of an inmate with AIDS hold a family together.

POZ Magazine

Lethal Lottery

Treatment and care for inmates with HIV varies dramatically from prison to prison. The luck of the draw can mean life or death.

POZ Magazine

Natural Bootleg

A prison drug-smuggler’s story

POZ Magazine

Double-Crossed

New investigation and intrigue in ’80s tainted-blood tragedy

POZ Magazine

Signs of Life

Photographer Frank Jump captures traces of a lost world.

The Trouble With Norvir

Abbott’s manufacturing malady is hard to swallow

POZ Magazine

Engine No. 48,000

New know-not infected stats

POZ Magazine

S.O.S.

POZ gets a lot of mail from prisoners with HIV. Every day the letters arrive, sometimes in stacks.

POZ Magazine

To the Editor

“Congratulations on the “Summer Fiction Reader” (August 1998). It’s superb.”

POZ Magazine

None the Wiser

Woman with HIV bedded men for revenge

POZ Magazine

Tomato, Tomahto

Brits nix early treatment

POZ Magazine

Enter at Your Own Risk

The U.S. government reached the end of its red tape in July when it allowed a PWA to re-enter the country where he had lived and paid taxes.

POZ Magazine

Say What

“POZ epitomizes all that is sordid, insipid, obscene, meretricious and disingenuous about nouveau riche ‘HIV’ consumer culture."

POZ Magazine

Swim Lessons

Surprise! Sharing a snorkel has no HIV risk

POZ Magazine

Stigma Enigma

Public attitudes about AIDS have changed…for the worse.

POZ Magazine

Daddy’s Helper

Legislator burns to ban Viagra for PWAs

POZ Magazine

Nushawn on the Block

The Nushawn Williams case became a lightning rod in the debate over criminalization of transmission.

POZ Magazine

Privacy Parsed

A national medical ID poses severe threats to HIV confidentiality

POZ Magazine

Equal Protection for All

Supreme Court backs application of ADA to prisons

POZ Magazine

“Just Say No” to Welfare

The president who didn’t inhale now denies benefits to those who do

POZ Magazine

Ms. Thurman Goes to Washington

The AIDS czar has activism in her blood and ice in her bra

POZ Magazine

POZ Picks

This collection by imprisoned writers shatters stereotypes in a barrage of complex truths.

POZ Magazine

Show and Tell

Serodiscordant relationship sounds more like Cold War tensions than hot nookie between people with and without HIV.

POZ Magazine

The Eye in the Storm

Andrew Sullivan takes on love, loss, friendship and sex

POZ Magazine

Get Our Phil

The king of chat loves to do just that

POZ Magazine

POZarazzi: AIDS! The Musical

Movers, shakers and troublemakers

POZ Magazine

Verse: Amirah

You walked the earth deliberately, solid-thighed, heavy-treaded, laden with Koran...

POZ Magazine

Obits

Bruce Cratsley, 53; James McIntyre, 49; Fabrice Simon, 47

POZ Magazine

One for the Books

Tommy and Valerie Reeder’s romance is better than fiction

POZ Magazine

Flying Ace

Francine Rodriguez reaches for the sky

POZ Magazine

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

He beats the odds behind the walls

POZ Magazine

Hatch a Plan

On the run—this time for Congress

POZ Magazine

Poetic License

She was a poet who didn’t know it…until she got HIV

POZ Magazine

The Vision Thing

At New York City’s PWA Health Group, the bottom line ousts a top activist

POZ Magazine

Stop the World, I want to Get Off

When neggies pop The Question

POZ Magazine

Surviving Behind the Walls

People with HIV on the street have learned that there’s no substitute for aggressively taking their health into their own hands.

POZ Magazine

Prick and Tell

Home HIV tests made easy

POZ Magazine

The Bitter End

How to stomach liquid Norvir

POZ Magazine

Draining the Reservoirs

It’s clear by now that crafty HIV infiltrates a variety of hidden “reservoirs” in the body.

POZ Magazine

Testosterone Beats Fatigue

A shot of testosterone can really perk up a guy’s day and night, according to Dr. Glenn Wagner

POZ Magazine

Carnitine Boosts CD4s

Increasing CD4 counts with a nontoxic agent already available sounds like wishful thinking.

POZ Magazine

Multivitamins for Moms

The motherly advice of “a vitamin a day” got powerful new support from a clinical trial

POZ Magazine

Bleach Works

Tips on reducing harm from drugging and tattooing

POZ Magazine

HIV Med Line

Answers to common combo-therapy questions

POZ Magazine

Weight List

Pump it up

POZ Magazine

Do the Hustle

Better eating behind bars

POZ Magazine

A Mantra a Day

De-stress with meditation 

POZ Magazine

Attack of the Monster Combo

HAART broken, Stephen Gendin is prescribed a six-to-eight drug regimen

POZ Magazine

Helper Cells

Information and advocacy for prisoners with HIV

POZ Magazine

He Still Is What He Is

Broadway’s favorite songwriter opens a new window

POZ Magazine

Dark Secrets

Barton Benes makes art combining images with text from the thousands of letters his Aunt Evelyn wrote to him in the ’70s.

Advertisement

Hot topics


POZ uses cookies to provide necessary website functionality, improve your experience, analyze our traffic and personalize ads. Our Privacy Policy

Manage

POZ uses cookies to provide necessary website functionality, improve your experience, analyze our traffic and personalize ads. By remaining on our website, you indicate your consent to our Privacy Policy and our Cookie Usage.