POZ September 2008
POZ September 2008
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
Features
The Castaways
Many of the estimated 11,000 people living with AIDS in the U.S. commonwealth of Puerto Rico have been abandoned and left for dead. The local...
Undress for Success
For 16 years, Broadway’s hottest stars have dropped trou for HIV/AIDS, in the spectacularly fleshy revue Broadway Bares. A production of Broad...
Living
Stomaching Nausea
Living with HIV doesn’t mean you have to live with its seemingly unavoidable partner, nausea.
No Behind Left Behind
Anal screening can keep you ahead of cancer.
Hep C Drug to the Rescue?
Hepatitis C (HCV), the liver-damaging virus that affects about 33 percent of HIV-positive people, is tough to treat.
Garlic Pill Warning
The FDA recently announced that the HIV protease inhibitor (PI) Invirase (saquinavir), when taken without a Norvir (ritonavir) booster...
Mexicanos y HIV
Using deities to teach AIDS info
Can Hypnosis Tame PN Pain?
You’re getting sleepy...and feeling good.
Getting Out and Staying Healthy
Some 25 percent of HIV-positive Americans pass through prison at some point, and staying healthy can be as hard after release as it was...
Throwing the Book at Marijuana
If you use marijuana to ease nausea, pain and other side effects of life with HIV, Medical Marijuana Law is an indispensable guide.
Kidney News
HIV-positive African Americans are more likely than positive white people to develop end-stage renal disease (ESRD) requiring dialysis or...
Tribal Council
On September 18, CBS will unveil the 17th season of its “reality” endurance competition Survivor.
The Good Germs
Who knew that probiotics—“good” bacteria found naturally in the body—would become the main ingredient of a hot new marketing trend.
Talking
Wedding Crashers
Do same-sex marriages cut the risk of HIV transmission? And is that question offensive?
Running on Empty
Surging gas prices tank access to HIV care.
The Freshman
Having mastered the personal lessons of the real-life course called HIV 101, Annette Lizzul goes back to school at 43.
Red-Carpet Ready
Jack Mackenroth’s designer digs hit the Daytime Emmys.
POZ / NEG
Pencils, books and dirty looks: HIV goes back to school.
Please Do Stop His Music
Earlier this year, iTunes Canada banned songs from Jamaican dancehall artists Elephant Man, Buju Banton and TOK because of their...
The Incredible Bulk
Christopher Bell’s critically acclaimed documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster*—which hits DVD on September 30—tackles the steroid debate....
M·A·C Attack
She’s only 26, but UNICEF media assistant Jabulisile Tugwana has it all figured out.
Birthday Girls
A Harlem ASO geared toward female empowerment, Iris House turns 15.
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Editor’s Letter-September 2008
Killing Time
Mailbox-September 2008
I am a pregnant positive woman, and because I decided to have a baby, my friends do not always look on me favorably.
The NAPWA/TAEP HIV/AIDS Policy Report
Securing the Legacy of Ryan White: Lessons From a (Nearly) Forgotten Report
GMHC Treatment Issues-September 2008
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