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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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Thomas Sankara and the stomachs that made themselves heard

Thomas Sankara’s vision to transform farming and health in Burkina Faso turned to dust with his assassination. Perry Blankson highlights the considerable achievements of Sankara’s brief span in power.

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In search of the ‘nature cure’

Under the competing pressures of modern life, many of us succumb to mental ill health. Samantha Walton explores why so-called ‘nature cures’ don’t help, and how the living world can actually help us.

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Lying low for lockdown and beyond

For Liz Carr the chances of catching Covid-19 are the same as for anyone else, but as a Disabled person she's at much greater risk of not getting the treatment she needs if she falls ill.

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  • A condom with a message in English and Chinese about safe sex and the risk of AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A condom with a message in Malay and Tamil about safe sex and the risk of AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A man holding up a photograph of his family in his wallet with a warning about the dangers of safe sex and the risk of AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Ministry of Health cost sharing charges in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 1989.
  • Two hands opening the shirt of a woman to reveal the words 'I've got AIDS' on her chest; a warning about the dangers of casual sex and AIDS by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • A butterfly and its shadow with a message in Malay and Tamil (?) about the dangers of having multiple partners and the risk of getting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • A butterfly and its shadow with a warning in English and Chinese about the dangers of having multiple partners and the risk of getting AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1992.
  • Two hands opening the shirt of a woman to reveal the words 'I've got AIDS' on her chest in Chinese; a warning about the dangers of casual sex and AIDS by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Two hands opening the shirt of a woman to reveal the words 'Saya Ada Virus AIDS' (I've got AIDS) on her chest; a warning about the dangers of casual sex and AIDS by the Training and Health Education Department, Ministry of Health in Singapore. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • Numerous pharmaceutical products bearing the Moroccan Ministry of Health stamp. Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
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