Amuse-Bouche: Meanderings, Margins & Algorithms - The Podcast

HIV prevention fails when we soften reality to protect institutions rather than people. Description Pakistan has documented four major HIV outbreaks since 2018. Public health continues to count visibility instead of risk, blame "low awareness" instead of broken systems, and design interventions for an imaginary compliant subject. This episode argues for an HIV self-testing chatbot as the rare inte...

The WHO framework treats sexuality as a variable: a demographic characteristic to be counted alongside age and disability. This episode argues it is something else entirely. A regime is a historically constructed system that operates simultaneously across governance, law, economic policy, cultural norms, and knowledge production. It does not sit in one box of the framework. It conditions all the b...

The WHO's social determinants of health framework maps how governance, education, employment, healthcare, and cultural norms produce health inequalities. It has been refined over seventeen years by hundreds of researchers across dozens of countries. It has never structurally incorporated sexuality. This episode asks why — and finds that the answer is not neglect but a structural limitation. Sexual...