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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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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability

By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.

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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean

Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.

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Air of threat

Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.

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  • People grouped to form the letters 'AIDS'; advertisement for World AIDS Day, December 1 1992 by the American Association for World Health. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • A red ribbon representing an AIDS Awareness stamp; advertisement for World AIDS Day, December 1 1993 by the American Association for World Health. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Four figures with joined arms and heads in the shape of the letters 'AIDS'; advertisement for World AIDS Day, December 1 1995 by the American Association for World Health. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A native American woman with long hair and a striped robe looks to the left in a purple landscape with other random figures walking in different directions; advertisement for the HIV antibody test by the American Indian Health Care Association. Colour lithograph after Ernie Whiteman, 1990.
  • Typhoid fever : its nature, mode of spreading, and prevention / by William Budd.
  • Black and white flames against a red background with a list of names representing an advertisement for 'exposicion de 36', a fair showing an exhibition of AIDS posters by Artis Association . Colour lithograph.
  • A condom called Proud Pete with speech bubbles warning parents to talk to their children about AIDS; advertisement for AIDS hotlines by the Pharmacists Planning Service. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • The Vermont gymnastic team sitting on benches with a list of safe sex practices; advertisement by the UVM Wellness Promotion Program of the Student Health Center of Vermont. Lithograph.
  • Two partially skeleton couples embrace representing the risk of death from AIDS; the winning poster by Mirjam Kongi from a competition entited 'Teenagers and Health' organised by the Estonian "Anti-AIDS" Association. Colour lithograph, ca.
  • Conference notice on medical ethics and practice in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Ethiopian Medical Association, 2008.
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