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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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When a private pee is a public disgrace

The free pee is getting rarer. And the lack of suitably equipped disabled toilets is condemning people to lives cloistered away in their own homes. Discover how toilet access for all is part of an equal society.

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Taking the piss

Council cuts have created public-toilet deserts across the UK, limiting journeys and days out for people whose medical conditions mean toilet access is essential. Campaigner Kevin Crowe highlights the issues.

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The cook who became a pariah

New York, 1907. Mary Mallon spreads infection, unaware that her name will one day become synonymous with typhoid.

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  • Cartoons illustrating ways in which you can't get AIDS including eating at restaurants and using toilets in public places; advertisement for the Minnesota AIDS Project by the Illinois Department of Public Health. Colour lithograph by Max.
  • Ways in which AIDS cannot be transmitted including a woman on a telephone, people sitting in a stream, using public toilets, kissing, shaking hands, sharing food and mosquito bites; an AIDS prevention advertisement from Laos. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Wooden building on a river; to be used as a public toilet in Bonthe, Sierra Leone. Photograph, c. 1911.
  • Two men engage in oral sex in a public toilet; an advertisement for safe sex by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Friedrich Baumhauer and Wolfgang Mudra.
  • A toilet, washing hands, drinking treated water and cooking and storing food safely: how to prevent cholera in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
  • A couple embracing, a woman spitting/coughing on the face of another, a woman kissing her baby; a woman on the telephone, men shaking hands and a man using a public toilet; an advertisement about ways in which AIDS and HIV are not contracted by Spitnac, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, 1997?.
  • A man and woman about to kiss, a pair of hands joined, children dancing, a novel toilet seat, a table set for dinner, a razor and a toothbrush, an extended condom and a splatter of blood; with a warning that the only protection from AIDS is information on protection; an advertisement by AIDES Lorraine Nord. Colour lithograph by Communatuté Municipale de Madrid.
  • Images that demonstrate that AIDS is not spread through social contact. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Ways in which AIDS is not spread from shaking hands and hugging to mosquito and insect bites; an advertisement by the Directorate of Health Services in Manipur. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • The British Museum: drinking fountains under the portico, with visitors. Wood engraving, 1860.
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