It has become a tradition for JAMA to omit acover image on the theme issue devoted to HIV/AIDS. Onceagain we observe this tradition. A Cover Without Art appearedpreviously on July 10, 1996; July 1, 1998; July 12, 2000; July10, 2002; July 14, 2004; and August 16, 2006. JAMA. 2008;300(5):480. M. Therese Southgate, MD, Editor The Cover Section Editor: M. Therese Southgate, MD, Senior Contributing Editor.
August 6, 2008 , (Vol. 300, Num. 5), is the day JAMA acknowledges the Day Without Art in memory of those artists and performers lost to HIV/AIDS. The HIV/AIDS issue of JAMA is part of its awareness program that acknowledges the Day Without Art by printing a blank cover.
