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A4 poster about unsafe sex and using condoms. "Developed as part of CHAPS".

AIDS ephemera : Condoms. Box 2.

It's not always easy using condoms, but they're the best way of stopping HIV : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

Be confident, be covered : condom tips / Terrence Higgins Trust.

There are more gay men with HIV than ever before : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes postcards etc. from Albert Kennedy Trust, Aled Richards Trust, Antidote (Part of the picture: the national LGB drug & alcohol database : Lesbian & Gay Foundation), Aurora (Croydon LGBT police consultation group, 2009), Broken Rainbow (LGBT domestic violence), Camden LGBT Forum, CHAPS, Cottaging and Cruising workshop, Coventry Friend, Croydon Area Gay Society, CYGNET (Croydon Young Gay Network), East London Sex Skills Initiative, Edward Carpenter Community, Fighting Spirit (Abusive lesbian relationships support), Les Flamands Roses, Fruitcamp.co.uk, ftm London (2011), Fusion (gay men's multi-racial group), GALOP, Gay and Lesbian Legal Advice (GLAD), Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, Gay Bereavement Project, Gay Ju Jitsu and Self-Defence, Gay London Swimmers, Gay Men Fighting AIDS (GMFA : gay sports), GMI Partnership, Godiva Young Gays and Lesbians, Harlow Lesbian and Gay Switchboard, the Healthy Gay Living Centre, Identity support group, Irish Gay Helpline (1992), Ishigaki Ju-Jitsu Club (2002), Kaleidoscope (black gay or bisexual men), Kenric (lesbian group), Kings Cross Steelers gay men's rugby club, KY Babies (younger gay men), Lesbian and Gay Bereavement Project, Lesbians in Lewisham.

General Collections Ephemera Collection

LGBTQ+ ephemera : Support groups. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes: CHAPS / Terrence Higgins Trust's www.thinkHIV.co.uk service (2010) and their "Think. Talk. Time to test?" initiative (beermat, condom pack, small posters, wallet size card, NAZ Project, Camden Primary Care Trust, Greenwich Teaching Primary Care Trust, SHAKA Services (aimed at African, African Caribbean and Asian communities in London), TB Alert's advice on tuberculosis and being HIV positive, West London Gay Men's Project (2011), NHS Lewisham (2014).

AIDS ephemera : HIV testing. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes information leaflets and the like about: Sexually transmitted diseases clinics, candida (Renew Life UK products : 2015?), chlamydia, chlamydia testing kits (2012), Terrence Higgins Trust (2015?), crabs (or pubic) lice, cystitis, genital warts, gonorrhoea, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, herpes, lymphogranuloma venereum, molloscum, non-specific urethritis (NSU), pelvic inflammatory disease, shigella, syphilis and thrush and trichomoniasis. Also a set of colour magazine inserts (1937-39) advertising drugs from Laboratoires Pharmaceutique Corbiere, Laboratoires de Biochimie Médicale and Laboratoires G. Beytout, Chlamydia (Lewisham NHS Primary Care Trust, 2010), Penelope's Pitstop Clinic (Greenwich, London. "For women who have sex with women" 2011), hepatitis C testing (NHS, 2009), Metrosexual Health (seriously sexy? cards : 2009), New sexual health drop-in service for bi, gay and trans individuals (30 Old Compton Street, London), 'online doctor' (John Bell & Croyden), John Knox Stuart, M.D. (Glasgow : 18th century?), cure for gleets (at the sign of the Anodyne Necklace : 1726), elixir for gleets and weaknesses (R. Nelson, M.D. : 1728), 'Advice on demobilisation : venereal diseases' (1919), aims, objectives and policy of the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases, public lecture by Dr. I. Feldman (St. Pancras Borough Council and the Campaign Against Venereal Diseases : 1922), Gynéco-Vaclydun, Gono-Vaclydun for genitourinary diseases (Laboratoire Pharmaceutique Corbière / Dr. Louis Duchon : 1937-1939), Sulfarsenol (Laboratoires de Biochimie Médicale : 1937), Orange County Special Diseases Clinic leaflet on general testing ; including HIV and hepatitis B & C (2003) .

Sexually transmitted diseases ephemera. Box 1.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes material from Big Up, Bottom Line, East London and the City Health Authority, GMFA (Gay Men Fighting AIDS) and the Naz Project. Includes a set of cards encouraging safer sadomasochistic sex, Terrence Higgins Trust and CHAPS travelcard wallet and sticker with the slogan (pink on green): 'Get it on', 4 postcards for the Terrnece Higgins Trust "Assume nothing" campaign (2 out of focus, colourfully dressed men on a white background), "Spit, swallow or slap?" (risks of HIV infection through oral sex. SLAPfm, Birmingham), rimming, West London Gay Men's Project.

AIDS ephemera : Safe sex education. Box 3.

A4 poster (yellow background) advertising PEP post exposure prophylaxis drug treatment for HIV infection, pointing out it is no substitute for using condoms and has side effects of diarrhoea, nausea and severe headaches. This campaign launched on launched on limited release in London & Brighton in 2004. Rolled out across England and Wales in June 2005.

AIDS ephemera : Therapy etc. Box 1.

HIV : now there is a treatment that may prevent HIV infection after the virus has entered the body : PEP post exposure prophylaxis : treatment only works if started within 72 hours of exposure : 1 month course of anti-HIV medication ... / Terrence Higgins Trust, developed as part of CHAPS.

The next time you think it's safe not to use a condom, will you regret it? : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

Subject coverage includes: marriage, lesbians, gay men, homosexuality in asian communities, transgender, gay and lesbian groups, challenging homophobia and transphobia, King Edward watching an x-ray diagnosis at the London Hospital (1910), radon, sun bathing, sun tan lotion, shaving, hair, Rossetter's Hair Restorer.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+40.

Subject coverage includes: incontinence, constipation, laxatives, diarrhoea, Wapping Workhouse (1866), head lice, stone, urine analysis (Marienbad 1934), migraine (Glaxo Laboratories), diabetes, insulins chart (London Hospital 6th edition, July 1987), cerebral palsy, Multiple sclerosis (GLAMS newsletter, summer 2009 - for gays, lesbians, transsexuals and bisexuals afected by MS), Parkinson's disease, newspaper cuttings (1794-1826) about asylums (or mad-houses) Cornwall Lunatic Asylum (1829), East Riding Asylum (1879), City of London Asylum (1900?), Ayr District Asylum (1896), mental health (aimed at teenagers and gay and bisexual men), 1850s satirical broadside on "a malignant election fever", Down's syndrome, schizophrenia, autism, World Mental Health Day, executive stress, 1870 satirical broadside: 'The march to Bedlam' (Borough of Newcastle-on-Tyne), phrenology, S. Randolph and Frederick Bridges' phrenology charts (1858), portrait of Dr. Francis Joseph Gall, mental nursing proficiency certificate (Royal Medico-Psychological Association : 1930).

Oversize ephemera. EPH+37.

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes safer sex promotional leaflets about using condoms to stop HIV infection and packs of single condoms and lubricant with safe sex text that would have been distributed free of charge in bars, pubs, clubs etc. Issued by: AIDS-Aufklärung (Frankfurt - supported by Glaxo-Wellcome), Blackliners, Bottom line, Brook advisory centres, Camden & Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust, City Health (South Africa), Coventry Youth Action, Durex, Enfield and Haringey Health Authority, Family Planning Sales Ltd., Freedoms, Gay Health Network Ireland, Gay Men's Health Project Dublin, GMFA (Gay Men Fighting AIDS) travelcard wallet (containing a condom and 2 sachets of lubricant, 2010) with the slogan: Ride safely, Health Education Authority (cards with slogans: 'Button up' and 'Cover me'), Health First, ID Lubricants, Rubberstuffers (RS Health Ltd.), Staying Alive and the Terrence Higgins Trust. Freedoms etc., 'I can be invisible and damage your health' beermat and condom pack (THT and CHAPS), GMFA's "Just as safe" campaign (stick men drawings), Terrence Higgins Trust's "Be confident, be covered" campaign (card, condom packs, A4 posters), travelcard wallet ("Wear it, lube it, fill it" CHAPS, 2011), West London Gay Men's Project, condoms by post (The Metro Centre, Greenwich), Freedoms (free condom pack for gay men : GMFA, 2009).

Box file containing items of ephemera in acid free sleeves. Includes the 'AIDS: don't die of ignorance' leaflet distributed to every UK household in 1986 -1987, the AIDS test (HIV diagnosis),guidance for health workers (Dept. of Health, 1990), blood and urine tests, positive eating (healthy diet for people with AIDS), information for travellers (WHO, 1987), AIDS in the workplace (Khomanani, 2004?), "being negative, staying negative" (GMFA, 1999?), "Bareback in dakrooms... know the fucking facts" (Terrence Higgins Trust, 1998), "Just as unbelievable..." (CHAPS, Terrence Higgins Trust campaign to stop people assuming sex partners are either HIV negative or HIV positive: wallet cards, postcards, A4 posters), "Fancy your chances" / "I'm here for sex, not to talk about being HIV+" scratch cards, safe and unprotected sex within relationships, "Cock-sucking tips" (risks of HIV infection from oral sex, Terrence Higgins Trust), Anti-transgender violence (2004 : Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center, San Francisco, California), "How do you know what you know?" (San Francisco AIDS Foundation / Gay Life A4 posters campaign to stop people assuming sex partners are either HIV negative or HIV positive), THT / CHAPS "Facts for life" 8 x A4 poster campaign about avoiding HIV infection, 4 postcards of posters and ephemera from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (2014?)

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It's not always easy using condoms, but they're the best way of stopping HIV : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

Be confident, be covered : condom tips / Terrence Higgins Trust.

There are more gay men with HIV than ever before : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

LGBTQ+ ephemera : Support groups. Box 1.

AIDS ephemera : HIV testing. Box 1.

Sexually transmitted diseases ephemera. Box 1.

AIDS ephemera : Safe sex education. Box 3.

HIV : now there is a treatment that may prevent HIV infection after the virus has entered the body : PEP post exposure prophylaxis : treatment only works if started within 72 hours of exposure : 1 month course of anti-HIV medication ... / Terrence Higgins Trust, developed as part of CHAPS.

The next time you think it's safe not to use a condom, will you regret it? : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+40.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+37.

AIDS ephemera : Condoms. Box 2.

AIDS ephemera : Awareness & education. Box 1.

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It's not always easy using condoms, but they're the best way of stopping HIV : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

Be confident, be covered : condom tips / Terrence Higgins Trust.

There are more gay men with HIV than ever before : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

LGBTQ+ ephemera : Support groups. Box 1.

AIDS ephemera : HIV testing. Box 1.

Sexually transmitted diseases ephemera. Box 1.

AIDS ephemera : Safe sex education. Box 3.

HIV : now there is a treatment that may prevent HIV infection after the virus has entered the body : PEP post exposure prophylaxis : treatment only works if started within 72 hours of exposure : 1 month course of anti-HIV medication ... / Terrence Higgins Trust, developed as part of CHAPS.

The next time you think it's safe not to use a condom, will you regret it? : Be confident, be covered / Terrence Higgins Trust.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+40.

Oversize ephemera. EPH+37.

AIDS ephemera : Condoms. Box 2.

AIDS ephemera : Awareness & education. Box 1.

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