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HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws

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Shereen El Feki |

TEDxSummit

• April 2012

There is an epidemic of HIV, and with it an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that effectively criminalize being HIV positive. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, TED Fellow Shereen El Feki gives a forceful argument that these laws, based in stigma, are actually helping the disease spread.

There is an epidemic of HIV, and with it an epidemic of bad laws -- laws that effectively criminalize being HIV positive. At the TEDxSummit in Doha, TED Fellow Shereen El Feki gives a forceful argument that these laws, based in stigma, are actually helping the disease spread.

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Shereen El Feki

Shereen El Feki

Arab sexuality expert

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Shereen El Feki works and writes on sexuality and social change in the Arab world.

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