The reactions to the recent travel ban against African countries has shown two things.
Some ties that bind HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 are that, during their early phases, both had death sentences attached to them evidenced by hospitalization and death rates that were shocking for their time. Early on, both were marked with little preliminary understanding of the viruses, and no cure – not to mention a vaccine -- to prevent infection. Like HIV/AIDS, preventing pre vaccine COVID-19 relied on behavioral protocols .
HIV/AIDS was also found among other groups which expanded the gaze to include intravenous drug users, blood transfusion patients that included women and children like Ryan White who was banned from attending school following an AIDS diagnosis but fought in court and won. Post-colonial critic, Edward Said would have called this “othering”, a conscious or subconsious perception of “us versus them”. Works by Franz Fanon, his teacher Aimé Cesairé , Achille Mbembe, Paolo Freire, and Michel Foucault have addressed the way geopolitics and other power imbalances have been harnessed to organize global structures in ways that harm the “Other”.
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