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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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Designing better mental health wards

Bringing colour and natural light to tired, grubby mental health wards has a measurably positive effect on patients. A few groundbreaking projects are showing the way.

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Six personal health zines that might change your life

Personal zines put health conditions back in the hands of the people who experience them. Here are six that Wellcome Collection staff love.

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NHS strikes and the decade of discontent

When the social unrest of the 1970s spread to the NHS, dissatisfied staff challenged the status quo for the first time in quarter of a century.

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  • A circle incorporating the words 'African American against AIDS'; advertisement by the Sacramento County Department of Health and Human Services. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman sits smiling between two men with an interview about how to deal with your friends getting AIDS; advertisement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph.
  • A black woman with her arms around a black man; a representation of cheating partners in an advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1994.
  • A black man in vest and shorts with a skipping rope over one shoulder holding a towel; an advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1991.
  • A man looks looks directly out at the viewer with an interview about how talk to your children about AIDS; advertisement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1991.
  • A young black man in a tracksuit holding a towel representing the risks involved in dabbling with drugs; advertisement about AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A boy with one hand on his hip looks looks directly out at the viewer with an interview about the reality of AIDS; advertisement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph.
  • A black woman holding a mug representing a woman whose partner has AIDS through sharing needles; an advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A woman leans on her forearms below the words 'What have you got against a condom?'; advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph.
  • A man wearing a polo neck jumper below the words 'What have you got against a condom?'; advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph.
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