Stories
- In pictures
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.
- In pictures
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
Catalogue
- Ephemera
AIDS posters : a project to digitise / Wellcome Library.
Wellcome Library.Date: 2009- Books
- Online
AIDS posters / UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library, History and Special Collections Division ; UCLA Digital Library Program.
Date: 2006-
- Pictures
- Online
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.
Date: 1996Reference: 678426i- Archives and manuscripts
Loose conference posters and documents relating to HIV/ AIDS
Date: 2002-2017Reference: PP/CLI/B/20Part of: Paul Clift: archives- Ephemera
These cards are a sample of more than 3000 AIDS awareness posters from the Wellcome Library.
Date: [2012]