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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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How to design an HIV awareness campaign

Using carefully crafted, colourful graphics is one public health team’s creative approach.

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Sick of being lonely

When his relationship ended, Thom James first withdrew from the world, then began to suffer from illnesses with no apparent physical cause.

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Providing care across languages

When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.

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  • Public health poster - mosquito and tiger
  • Public health reports, volume 55 - part 2
  • Public health reports, volume 55 - part 2
  • A world map with figures and statistics highlighting the numbers of those with the HIV virus; with the message that over 50% of heterosexual HIV transmission in Norway occurs abroad; an advertisement by The Norwegian Institute of Public Health. Colour lithograph by , ca. 1995.
  • A man in a suit smiling with one finger raised, advocating use of condoms for gay men; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
  • A nurse with one finger raised and the message: 'Wer's im Urlaub ohne treibt, ist im Kopf nicht ganz gescheit' [Whoever goes on holiday unprepared is not clever in the head]; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
  • A man with a moustache points his finger with the message: 'Ohne gummi auf den Strich, so was tut Mann lieber nicht! [Without rubber/condoms on the streets, so what do men prefer no to!]; an advertisement for safe sex by the Authority of Labor, Health and Social Affairs, Hamburg and the Office of Public Health - Health Promotion / AIDS. Colour lithograph by Transglobe Black Box and DMB&B.
  • Iris, an HIV positive woman with two men and the message in Italian: "Iris is HIV positive - we stand by her"; one of a series of posters from a Solidarity 'Stop AIDS' campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Iris, an HIV positive woman with two men and the message in Italian: "Iris is HIV positive - we stand by her"; one of a series of posters from a Solidarity 'Stop AIDS' campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • The groin area of a naked man and woman blocked by the message 'Sempre piu Su' with growing condoms to reflect the increasing statistics of those in the 17 to 30 age group using condoms with each new sexual partner; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' poster campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero, in collaboration with the Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1992.
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