The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

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.

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

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

Some countries have good laws, laws which could stem the tide of HIV. The problem is that these laws are flouted. Because stigma gives unofficial license to treat people living with HIV or those at greatest risk unlike other citizens.

If you really want to know yourself, start by writing a book.