POZ May 2005
POZ May 2005
In every issue, you’ll find the hottest topics of interest to our readers along with cutting-edge health information.
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A Model Activist
Miss HIV Stigma Free’s post-catwalk musings
Inside the Issue
Hep Cat
The 30 percent of HIVers with hepatitis C crowd the death roll but not the halls of power.
The Brave Lady of Haiti
In her first U.S. interview, the HIVer who broke Haiti’s silence on AIDS sounds off on voodoo, George Bush--and how activism must put PWAs..
Mighty Real
Reclaiming an era through legendary disco queen Sylvester, who died of AIDS in 1988
Big, Bad Media Bugout
Why the “supervirus” story may end not with a bang but a whimper
So Many Supers...
POZ broke the first-ever “superbug” story in 1996. That’s why we’ve cast a cold eye on “super” stories ever since.
Earthwatch
In January, Russia began providing free HIV meds to its 300,000 state-registered HIVers, having funded treatment for only 600 in 2004.
PEP on the Down Low
CDC OKs “mornings-after” pills for risky sex--so why won’t the med establishment wake up?
Quick Studies
Sip ’n’ Snip
Legal Eye
I’d like to visit Bali this summer. Can I enter as an HIVer? Will I have trouble bringing meds or getting refills?
On the March!
POZ’s C2EA countdown
Notes on Camp
For HIVer kids and their families, camp needn’t mean an antiseptic Wet HAART American Summer.
Kentucky Fried Bigots?
A restaurant chain’s greasy AIDS stance
POZ Picks
Subscribe to Ledge, the only U.S. AIDS mag by and for black college students.
Hollywood to HIVers: Drop Dead
Is tasteless AIDS “humor” better than no mention at all?
Ouch!
For HIVers, the Vioxx saga is a tiny wince in a lifelong battle with pain. Here, what really works.
Veggie Table
The USDA’s new dietary guidelines have upped your daily fruit and vegetable requirements to five to 13 servings.
Don’t Run
Since 1998, my HIV combo has included Viracept—and I’ve battled the runs.
A Peek in the Pipeline
Super science (beyond superbugs) from the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI)
Ducking Resistance
“Rutgers researchers may have stopped HIV,” AP headlines hyped last December.
Quick Study
Researchers in Hawaii, California and Germany found out how long-term crystal meth use helps HIV damage your brain cells.
Pharm Team
How to work your pharmacist
Warning!
HIVers taking protease inhibitor Reyataz shouldn’t take proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs), stomach meds like Prilosec (omeprazole): The PPIs...
Haartbeats
Med-news nuggets from CROI, the year’s biggest AIDS confab:
Editor’s Letter
I write this on Easter, a celebration of rebirth.
Mailbox
“The English Patients” [January 2005] valiantly touches on the complexity of the HIV crisis in what you call drugged-out, desperate Britai...
Teen Jeopardy
A college HIV quiz brings a daily double of “duh” and despair
Heavy Lifting
After getting bad labs, I hit the gym--and almost get hit myself.
