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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.
  • 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.
  • An American Indian 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 by Ernie Whiteman, 1990.
  • AIDS Walk New York Sunday May 22 1994. A ten kilometer fundraising walkathon start/end at the Great Lawn in Central Park ... benefiting Gay Men's Health Crisis ... Principal sponsors: David Geffen Foundation, Joan and Bob Tisch ... supporting sponsors American Express Company ... Created and produced by Craig Miller, Richard Zeichik and Associates. In cooperation with the City of New York Parks and Recreation Dept ...
  • 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.
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