Stories
- Article
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.
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- Article
Sharing breastmilk with parents
Alev Scott donated her frozen breastmilk to a hospital milk bank, but she was curious about other routes. Here she explores commercial operations and informal private arrangements.
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Why pandemic denial is nothing new
Could today’s Covid-deniers be taking lessons from history? After all, it’s nearly 200 years since frustrations at a cholera-induced lockdown erupted in Sunderland.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
HIV/AIDS - health education/prophylaxis/prevention
Date: 1984 - 1993Reference: SA/FPA/C/E/16/3/23Part of: Family Planning Association- Books
- Online
Stopping bloodborne HIV : investigating unexplained infections / David Gisselquist.
Gisselquist, DavidDate: [2021]- Books
Responding to HIV/AIDS : national strategies, plans and programs / Lawrence T. Jensen, editor.
Date: [2011], ©2011
- Pictures
- Online
Pastel-coloured figures float amidst leaf shapes against a backdrop of bullet point text describing the United Nations Principles of HIV infection; an advertisement by the Estonian Association "Anti-AIDS". Colour lithograph, 1994.
Date: 1994Reference: 676915i
- Ephemera
- Online
AIDS : Citizen Action AIDS Policy Unit, 53 Queen Anne Street, London W1M 0LJ ... : the AIDS Policy Unit - what it is.
Date: [between 1985 and 1990?]