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AIDS awareness posters from the 1980s onwards

The AIDS public health poster campaign chose print even in the internet age and dealt with issues of identity and behaviour like never before.

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Why the 1918 Spanish flu defied both memory and imagination

The Black Death, AIDS and Ebola outbreaks are part of our collective cultural memory, but the Spanish flu outbreak has not been.

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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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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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  • AIDS as a disease which affects people of all ethnic origins; advertising the Jewish Aids Trust. Lithograph.
  • Six ill people, with either AIDS or another disease, representing the difficulty of being sure that someone has AIDS.
  • Kenneth G. Castro, managing director of the AIDS program for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control with a message in spanish containing how to get information about AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • A block of text containing a definition of the AIDS disease partially hiding the word 'AIDS' representing an anti-AIDS advertisement by the AIDS Savşim Dernegi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The words 'Aids is a white man's disease' in white on black; advertisement for information on how to prevent Aids by People of Colour Against Aids. Colour lithograph.
  • Two arms entwined and joined at the hands representing a couple who risk catching AIDS with a message from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • Six ill people in Uganda, with either AIDS or another disease; representing the difficulty of being sure that someone has AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • Six ill people in Uganda, with either AIDS or another disease; representing the difficulty of being sure that someone has AIDS (French version). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • A blonde haired woman looks directly out at the viewer; representation of the risk of AIDS in new relationships with text relating to an interview about how to broach the subject of AIDS on first dates; an advertisement by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Lithograph.
  • The disease AIDS represented as a hole in the road, the advice "Stop AIDS" as a warning not to fall into the hole. Colour lithograph after I. Chadima, 1988.
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