AMA Journal of Ethics

Deception’s justifiability might depend on clinicians’ commitment to solidarity and awareness of social determinants of patients’ vulnerability to HIV infection.

Merits and drawbacks of U = U messaging are ethically and clinically complex, and drawbacks could harm patients in whom viral suppression is hard to achieve.

Drs Oliva Kates and Monica Gandhi join Ethics Talk to discuss equity and public health messaging in ending the HIV epidemic.

Long-acting injectables powerfully augment HIV care, but broad acceptance and uptake could be compromised by what we know about experiences with antipsychotics.

Ending AIDS requires normalizing justice-based approaches to HIV care and acknowledging how power dynamics shape popular narratives and practices.

Parens patriae, the state as parent, can be enacted during forced clinical interventions.

Establishing criteria for compassion maximization would help us do better than harm minimization.

This article considers force use in clinical settings after a triggering event—a behavioral or medical crisis—and considers how it should be implemented.

For an adolescent patient with extreme anorexia nervosa, steps for expressing compassion during a force intervention need to be clear.

Dr Ziad Obermeyer talks about the potential impact on mortality of cost-sharing practices of health insurers.