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What We Know About Long-acting Injectable Antipsychotics Can Help Innovate HIV Care

Long-acting injectable antiretroviral therapy (LA-ART) is a powerful new addition to the treatments available for patients living with HIV, but broad acceptance and uptake could be compromised by what we know about patients’ and clinicians’ experiences with long-acting injectable antipsychotics…

Exceptionalism at the End of AIDS

HIV/AIDS exceptionalism promoted compassion, garnered funding, built institutions, and shaped regulatory and research agendas under emergency conditions. Globally, however, HIV/AIDS exceptionalism has further fragmented fragile health service delivery systems in vulnerable, marginalized communities and created perverse incentives to influence seropositive…

Is “Undetectable = Untransmissible” Good Public Health Messaging?

This article considers merits and drawbacks of “undetectable = untransmissible” (U = U) messaging in the global HIV response. First, viral suppression might be achieved with effective treatment, but not everyone living with HIV has access to such intervention and…

Activating Empathy Through Art in Cancer Communities

The Aesthetics of Health (AOH) undergraduate visual art studies course at the University of Texas at Austin aimed to enhance art students’ awareness of cancer’s impact not only medically but also socially, emotionally, financially, and spiritually and to examine how…

How an Arts-Based Clinical Skills Set Can Be Assessed During OSCEs

Arts-based activities’ roles in medical education is to challenge students to cultivate clinical skills using ART (aesthetics, reflection, time). ART activities offer opportunities for students to cultivate creative dimensions of their clinical skills and to reflect on their responses to…

How a Medical Orchestra Cultivates Creativity, Joy, Empathy, and Connection

Inspired by research indicating that exposure to humanities correlates with reduced burnout, the Nebraska Medical Orchestra was founded in 2018 as a collaboration between the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Music….