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The question "What is AIDS?" in sixteen languages spoken in Berlin; representing health advice services for HIV-positive migrants. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

Aids-Koordinierungs- und Anlaufstelle für MigrantInnen.
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[1995?]

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Description

A customised question mark, with a spiral form or metal spring representing the upper part and an exclamation mark representing the dot; possibly the spiral in turn represents the immigrant community centred on Berlin, and the exclamation mark (purple) represents urgency of need

Publication/Creation

Berlin (Chausseestr. 8, 10115 Berlin) : A.k.a.m., [1995?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 42 x 29.5 cm

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Was ist AIDS? a.k.a.m. Beratung-Information-Unterstützung (Aids-Koordinierungs- und Anlaufstelle für MigrantInnen) ... Finanzierung: European Project AIDS & Mobility Amsterdam

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Aids-Koordinierungs- und Anlaufstelle für MigrantInnen (AKAM), Berlin 1995 Aids-Koordinierungs- und Anlaufstelle für MigrantInnen (AKAM), Chausseestr. 8, 10115 Berlin Germany 21/2/2009 UkLW UK Transcription from the item

Reference

Wellcome Library no. 674196i

Language note

In languages including Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Czech, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Vietnamese, Thai (?)

Creator/production credits

AKAM was founded in 1994 as a self-help and support group for immigrants in Berlin with HIV/AIDS
European Project AIDS & Mobility seems to have been an earlier name for the later AIDS & Mobility Europe (A&M), which is described on its website as a networking project concerned with HIV/AIDS and migration in Europe

Lettering note

Includes telephone number, opening hours, address and directions to the AKAM office

Type/Technique

Languages

  • German
  • Russian
  • French
  • Romanian
  • Thai
  • Polish
  • Vietnamese
  • Arabic
  • Spanish
  • Turkish
  • Greek, Modern (1453- )
  • Czech
  • English
  • Italian
  • Portuguese

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