AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Heightened privacy and confidentiality stakes generate unique anonymity and nondisclosure policies and practices for HIV.

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

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics offers guidance on HIV screening that expresses respect for patient autonomy while protecting public health.

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.

Patient-centered care means offering potentially beneficial interventions while avoiding retraumatizing a patient.

HPV tests are alternatives to Pap smear screening that enable women to self-collect specimens and might be the best cervical cancer prevention strategy for many.

Physicians caring for trafficking victims should know about applicable criminal and human rights law and mandatory reporting requirements.

AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Terri Davis, a third-year MD student at West Virginia University School of Medicine, interviewed Ranit Mishori, MD, about how to respond to incidents of suspected human trafficking in health care settings.

The combination of low HIV literacy on the part of older adults and health care professionals’ assumption that they are at low risk leads to insufficiently early testing for HIV and late diagnosis.