South Africa's inability to honestly confront AIDS shows the dangers of America's COVID-19 denialism
- Written by Renee Schatteman, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature, Georgia State University
A South African woman mourning her husband who died of AIDS covers herself, according to custom, during the burial.Per-Anders Pettersson via Getty ImagesAt a time when the U.S. is experiencing one of the worst COVID-19 infection rates among wealthy nations, Americans could take some cautionary lessons from South Africa, the nation that fared the...