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Guerrilla public health

From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.

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Deadly doses and the hardest of hard drugs

The invention of the modern hypodermic syringe meant we could get high – or accidentally die – faster than before. Find out how this medical breakthrough was adapted for deadly uses.

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Vaccinating a community, saving lives

Doctor Jane Harvey always goes the extra mile to care for her patients, and in recent months that’s extended to huge efforts to save lives with her coronavirus vaccination push.

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When wounds replace words

For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.

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  • A hand offers a syringe to another hand with a warning about transmission of AIDS through needle-sharing. Colour lithograph, 1988, for the Coordination Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs (French Community in Belgium).
  • A clock in which the hands incorporate a sequence of six photographs of a couple making love then sharing a needle to inject themselves; advertisement for safe sex by the Department of Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Instructions on how to sterilize needles and syringes and a warning about the dangers of needle-sharing and AIDS within the silhouette form of 2 figures in black and grey; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Voluntary Health Association of India and the Manipur Voluntary Health Association. Colour lithograph by Ramesh Sukumar for VHAI, ca. 1995.
  • A woman holds a syringe as if smoking a cigarette watched by a black man in a green tracksuit and another in a grey dinner suit; warning about drugs, needle-sharing and safe sex practices to prevent AIDS by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for AIDS Education. Colour lithograph.
  • A smiling sun with hearts and hands with thumbs pointing up to diagrams illustrating activities in which AIDS is not transmitted including a hand shake, two women sharing food, a man receiving blood transfusion and a couple kissing; also featuring a storm cloud and hands pointing to crossed out diagrams of a couple sharing a needle and a couple having unprotected sex; an advertisement for illustrated cards developed by L'AIPS and Le Kiosque in association with Marie de Paris and EMIPS. Colour lithograph.
  • You can't get HIV from : giving blood, insect bites, glasses, cutlery, towels, toilet seats, shaking hands, sharing meals, cups, kissing : you risk getting HIV by sharing needles or syringes, having unprotected sex / LHB.
  • Two hands shaking with a warning about sharing needles; an AIDS prevention advertisement by SASO, Lifeline, Lighthouse, Kripa and VHAM. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Take care; don't share : AIDS is spread by sharing injecting equipment and having unsafe sex : free syringes, needles and condoms are avaiable from / Druglink ; designed by Miles Chambers.
  • A syringe forming the 'i' of the word 'AIDS'; a warning about the dangers of spreading AIDS through sharing needles and syringes. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's (?).
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Cambodian. Colour lithograph.
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