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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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Dealing with the dead after a nuclear attack

Cold War-era predictions of death on a vast scale became routine. But the British authorities were less prepared to dispose of the bodies.

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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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Fees, funding and the NHS

In the 1950s, dramatic political battles over NHS charges brought down a government. But public confidence in the service still grew.

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  • Dotted profile of a woman's face representing an advertisement for ACT Women and AIDS Program by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph.
  • A brush mark representing an advertisement for AIDS Awareness Week, June 8-14 1987 by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph.
  • A red ribbon with a message to keep up the fight against AIDS by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A condom with a group of gay men representing an advertisement for safer sex by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Susan Ross.
  • Two naked men making love against a window with one wearing a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS Committee of Toronto, Gay Men's Health Crisis and AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts. Colour lithograph by Peter Urban, 1991.
  • A man performing oral sex on another man representing an advertisement for safer sex by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Norman Hatton, 1988.
  • A black woman leaning on one hand with a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Stephanie Marlin.
  • A condom and a man lying on a bed with one arm in front representing an advertisement for safe sex by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph.
  • A black man whose shadow is reflected on a wall behind, with a condom; advertisement for safe sex by the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention and the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Michael Chambers.
  • Two men dressed in sadomasochism gear with the letters S/M Safer Sex; part of the Talking Sex Safer S/M Education Project by the AIDS Committee of Toronto. Colour lithograph by Francis M. Patenuade.
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