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POZ is America's premier lifestyle, treatment and advocacy magazine and website for people living with--and those affected by--HIV and AIDS. It informs, inspires and empowers its readership that comprises 70% of the estimated 1 million people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S. who are aware of their HIV status.

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My Blog

Joseph's POZ Blog: An Introduction

I'm Joseph Sonnabend and this is my first POZ blog post. To start, just a very few words about myself. I have been an infectious diseases physician and virologist, doing more doctoring than lab work s...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:55:00 GMT

Ron's POZ Blog - "More Than a Wheelchair, More Than HIV: Overcoming PML"

My dad passed on May 21 of this year, so needless to say I was a total mess until the second week of June.  Dad, I think knew his time was coming after his hospital visit the Sunday before he died, Ma...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:38:00 GMT

Ethan Zohn Is More Than Surviving

One of the HIV/AIDS community's heroes, Ethan Zohn, was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease earlier this Spring.  You might know Ethan as the winner of Survivor Africa in 2002- he became famous for havin...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:27:00 GMT

French Condom Ad Gets It

A recent French commercial for Durex condoms caught my attention. The ad starts with an attractive younger heterosexual couple getting frisky and opening a purple-wrapped condom. The purple wrappe...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:02:00 GMT

Angles, Punks and Raging Queens

Four decades have passed since the Stone Wall Riots. As I sit and try to remember the "mix of the bad old days" my mind drifts to legacy and death.  Is it possible that no one in the masses that night...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:10:00 GMT

More on 'When to Start"

Yet more evidence supports earlier treatment A clinical trial looking at when to start anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment in Haiti was halted early when unacceptably large differences were seen between t...
Posted by on Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:16:00 GMT

Regan's Blog: Why I Do What I Do

This morning, I was a guest on the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC radio (WNYC.org - search for my name or click here) We discussed whether or not people living with HIV should be criminalized for knowingly...
Posted by on Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:25:00 GMT

POZ Podium: Norways Export of Stigma

An HIV-positive justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Edwin Cameron discusses how Norways HIV transmission laws are counterproductive in the countrys fight against AIDS. A version of...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 09:00:00 GMT

Cielo Latino 2009

Cielo Latino 2009 was great! Congratulations to the Latino Commission on AIDS for such a successful event. This 14th annual national fundraiser on May 12 was one to remember.Among the distinguished at...
Posted by on Mon, 18 May 2009 17:29:00 GMT

Obama's Silence on AIDS

Last week, our nation's largest AIDS organization, the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, launched a cable TV and Internet ad challenging President Obama's silence on AIDS during his first ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 May 2009 07:47:00 GMT