Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is not the first pandemic that many of us have faced in our lives. The HIV/AIDS pandemic continues to affect women, racialized people, and LGBTQ2S+ people around the world today, and there are significantly fewer resources to address, and less political will and news coverage of, this other pandemic.1 Although many see COVID-19 as an unprecedented public health crisis that is challenging our societies and our relationships with each other in unique ways, I argue that we actually have a lot to learn from our responses to HIV/AIDS and that feminist bioethicists can help us understand how the present situation is actually an extension of several underlying medical and social issues and...