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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<p>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</p>

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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.

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