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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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NHS Blue: the colour of universal healthcare

The 1980s and 1990s saw ideas from the world of business infiltrating the NHS, including the introduction of an internal market, followed by a corporate branding exercise.

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Why are women more willing donors than men?

Why is there a gender imbalance when it comes to the donation of organs, blood and tissue, and what can be done about it?

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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  • Three sets of arms joining hands representing an advertisement for AIDS anti Civic Association of Catalonia, Gays for Health to mark World AIDS Day on 1st December 1989; advertisement by the Barcelona City Council, Catalonia Department of Health and Social Services and the GPS [?]. Colour lithograph 1989.
  • Venus Project : young people's health resources service / Islington Council.
  • Venus Project : young people's health resources service / Islington Council.
  • Numerous people in a variety of social engagements representing an advertisement for confidential telephone counselling on HIV/AIDS by the AIDS Action Council, Australia. Colour lithograph by D. Green.
  • Words relating to sex litter the page between swirling patterns; representing an advertisement for safe sex by the Gay Men's Health Education Unit. Colour lithograph by Paull McKee.
  • Five hands signing against a decorative background with a message for deaf people to open their eyes to AIDS; advertisement by the AIDS Education/Services for the Deaf. Colour lithograph.
  • HIV/AIDS Lewisham you / Lewisham Council.
  • HIV/AIDS Lewisham you / Lewisham Council.
  • HIV/AIDS Lewisham you / Lewisham Council.
  • HIV/AIDS Lewisham you / Lewisham Council.
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