The HIV and AIDS collective memory: anecdotal notes on texts of trauma, care-giving and positive living

Abstract

The story of Botswana’s 50 years of Independence cannot be told without remembering the story of HIV and AIDS. Remembering, yes, but sometimes we wish to forget this painful story to make our lives ‘normal’ again –so we can think about the future with some degree of certainty; so we heal the pain it caused; so we can avert the fears it so recklessly planted in our mist.