July/August 2012

Cover: In preparation for the 2012 International AIDS Conference, POZ offers Congress a seven-item must-do list—including tackling homophobia and racism, decriminalizing HIV, encouraging safer drug use—if we are to end AIDS in our lifetime. Inside: A new film explores why the American South has not succeeded in its struggle to break free of AIDS; Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, co-discoverer of HIV, discusses the hunt for a cure. Plus: Magic Johnson has a new Medicaid plan for Florida.