Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Why, in our age of science, [do] we still have laws and policies which come from an age of superstition?

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

Laws that treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk with respect start with the way that we treat them ourselves: as equals. If we are going to stop the spread of HIV in our lifetime, then that is the change we need to spread.

HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.