Poz Face

Michael Petrelis chronicles the impact of long term retroviral therapy on the faces of those who have survived HIV a long time -  by boldly posting his own above. I am lucky not to have been too affected by this, but some loss of fat in the face and accumulation of fat on my back or deep in my gut - the "elephant hump" and "protease paunch" - is something I've learned to live with (and counter with the only drug that seems to work, the prohibitively expensive serostim).

Michael notes how s...