Connecting Pandemics: HIV and Covid19

• Describe the process by which the residents of Do Kay came to develop a consensus understanding of the meaning of HIV?
• What cultural and structural factors shaped their understandings and their vulnerability to infection?
• What happened over time to help flatten this variance and create agreement in their understanding of HIV/AIDS?

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• How can the Haitian experience with HIV help us understand the contemporary variation in the understanding of Covid19 in the United States?
• Why do some people believe in the danger of the virus and others don’t?
• Why do some people support efforts to mitigate the spread of the virus but others don’t?
• What social, cultural, or factors are shaping how Covid19 is understood here in the United States?
• Can we reach a consensus in the US on the meaning of Covid19?
• What role does social class and racial/ethnic inequality play?