Personal Digest: When laws spread disease: HIV’s legal toll

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Personal Digest: When laws spread disease: HIV’s legal toll
Digest Newsletter · Aug 22, 2026
Personal Digest: When laws spread disease: HIV’s legal toll

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Laws, not medicine, driving HIV’s rise in parts of Africa — Criminalization of LGBTQ+ people in several African countries is undermining HIV prevention, with evidence showing legal penalties fuel transmission rather than curb it.

Informed Consent

Informed Consent

Guidance shifts and trust gaps are rewriting consent

Vaccination (news.bloomberglaw.com) · Data sharing (bioengineer.org)

Sexual Minorities

Sexual Minorities

Laws, not medicine, driving HIV’s rise in parts of Africa

HIV (aidsmap.com)

Fiction

Fiction

History sells: Obama’s picks put historical fiction back on the map

Historical Fiction (womansworld.com)

Sexuality

Sexuality

Digital dangers and shifting safety: consent, assault, and accountability

Child Sexual Abuse (13wham.com) · Sexual Assault (cbsnews.com) · Sexual Harassment (npr.org)

Writing

Writing

From cursive to court opinions: writing’s shape-shifting renaissance

Artificial Intelligence (chronicle.com) · Serial Killers (crimereads.com) · Supreme Court Of The United States (scotusblog.com)

gender diversity

gender diversity

Tech, film, and policy: the uneven road to real inclusion

Violence against women (google.com) · Robotics (thedronegirl.com) · Film industry (google.com)