In resolving the tensions of the advent of COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination in Kenya, I saw the need and usefulness of journeying with the HIV epidemic. HIV/AIDS offers an understanding of the peculiarity and emphasizes the traceability of re-emergence and reproduction of Suffering, stigma, narratives, and death in historically fragile places. Especially in places that have suffered harsh epidemics in the past. It is right to point out that, in some places, COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination controversies did not alter the landscape; the pandemic came to reinforce what had been carried along from the past. The unresolved historical issue (Hays, 2005) and the long-term effects and anxieties of the AIDS epidemic left behind. The article shows how messages of ‘death’ and ‘infertility rumours’, either produced locally or internationally, presented a crisis of ‘unsanitized bodies’ and ‘bodies and wombs expected to die’. It showed how ‘the imagined landscape of ‘positive living’ remained blurred in the new pandemic and demonstrated how suffering continues to be hidden or silenced or sometimes recognized within new emerging epidemics or remembered events. Thus, drawing on ethnographic research in Dudi, a village in western Kenya, I show how the Aftermath of the 1990s AIDS epidemic fed into the conception and conversation of COVID-19 and vaccination controversies in the region. Through the lives of young women living with HIV in Dudi, I weave the stories of women’s COVID-19 vaccination experience drawn from the broader fabric of the history of the place and the AIDS epidemic. I reflect on how the HIV/AIDS history in Dudi percolated the COVID-19 vaccination infertility fears and reproduced ideas of stigma, suffering, fear, and narrative about the bodies of those who lived with HIV, their gender, and reproductive capabilities.