A cross in a circle against a grid background with messages recommending an AIDS test. Colour lithograph for the Ministère de la Santé, Luxembourg, 1989.

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[19]89:
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A cross in a circle against a grid background with messages recommending an AIDS test. Colour lithograph for the Ministère de la Santé, Luxembourg, 1989. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The mark (here a cross or a plus sign) in an open circle sometimes indicates an exam grade. In this work it may indicate the answer to an AIDS diagnostic test: the person is HIV positive. But why in mottled red? The present logo of the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (2010) uses a similar motif but with, it seems, a different meaning: it is a C followed by the left half of a "+" sign (or the right side of an H), perhaps representing the initials CH for Centre Hospitalier and simultaneously including a cross reminiscent of the Red Cross

Publication/Creation

Luxembourg : Ministère de la Santé, [19]89: (Luxembourg : Imprimerie Centrale, societé anonyme)

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 59 x 41.9 cm

Lettering

Sin oder nët sin ... et gët mëmmen eng Äntwert: AIDSTEST. Anonym. Gratis ... To be or not to be--there's only one answer: AIDSTEST. Anonymous, free of charge. Bears logo: SIDAIDSIDA 89 tel: 45 87 37 with silhouette map of Luxembourg Bears addresses in Luxembourg at which the AIDS test is available in 1989: Laboratoire National de Santé, 42, rue du Laboratoire, L-1911, Luxembourg; and Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg, Département des Maladies Infectieuses, L-1210 Luxembourg

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Ministère de la Santé 1989 Ministère de la Santé also includes addresses of the Laboratoire National de Sante and the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg 18/11/08 Luxembourg UkLW Transcription from the item

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Wellcome Collection 672138i

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