Policing Bodies: Policy and Legal Barriers to SRHR for Adolescents

“The law often seems abstract and distant, and it can be hard to comprehend. But for people living with HIV, for their families and communities, for key populations and those vulnerable to HIV, the law is neither abstract nor distant. It is police harassment or clean needles, prison cells or self-help groups—the law is the torturer’s fist or the healer’s hand.”