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AIDS awareness posters from the 1980s onwards

The AIDS public health poster campaign chose print even in the internet age and dealt with issues of identity and behaviour like never before.

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Artists, activism and AIDS

Posters by artists who turned their art into activism to support their communities and raise awareness of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Families fighting for justice

In 1962 a group of parents whose children had been affected by thalidomide began a decades-long battle in the law courts, the media and Parliament in order to win fair justice for all thalidomide survivors.

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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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  • Exhibition of posters entitled 'Kunst und AIDS in 1993
  • A range of AIDS posters torn in a circle to reveal a pink centre showing details of an exhibition of AIDS posters in Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, 1996.
  • Fight AIDS with NAC's posters, stickers, mugs, t-shirts & badges / NAC.
  • Fight AIDS with NAC's posters, stickers, mugs, t-shirts & badges / NAC.
  • List of AIDS information telephone lines; sixteenth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A warning about AIDS and drugs; Italian version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A warning about AIDS and drugs; German version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • List of symptoms of HIV infection that lead to AIDS; fifth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A sequence of instant colour photographs of fifteen year old students from the Collège les Toulouses against blackboards bearing messages relating to AIDS awareness; one of a series of posters representing an advertisement for a competition for posters of images against AIDS. Colour lithograph by the students.
  • A warning about AIDS and drugs; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [STOP AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
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