Uploading HIV/AIDS : digital Platforms, Gender Justice, and New Legal Challenges Between the US and the EU

Starting from the HIV historical reconstruction and its first regulations between the US and the EU, the article examines how the law changes when digital technologies come into play. Indeed, since the beginning, HIV/AIDS activism has been strictly related to the emerging cyberspace, entangling their roads as never happened before. Then, focusing on the role played by HIV Prevention and its digitalization, new legal issues emerged. However, social stigma and outdated laws still prevent effective legal responses, leaving people HIV-positive and HIV-negative who take preventive biomedical devices without adequate protection.