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Title:
Getting High Doesn't Cause AIDS. It Just Lets It Happen
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Description:
Public Health officials during the second half of the 1980s became concerned about the spread of AIDS particularly among minorities, a disproportionate number of whom were intravenous drug users, had no health coverage, and were thus were an increased risk to contract the disease.
NOTE: Original slide is slightly blurry.
Number of Image Pages:
1 (834,345 Bytes)
Date Supplied:
1980s
Creator:
Centers for Disease Control (U.S.)
Source:
History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Division.
This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).
URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/
IHM Order Number: A031358
Rights:
This item is in the public domain. It may be used without permission.
Exhibit Category:
AIDS, the Surgeon General, and the Politics of Public Health
Unique Identifier:
QQBBSK
Document Type:
Posters
Slides (photographs)
Language:
English
Format:
image/jpeg
image/tif
Physical Condition:
Good
Metadata Last Modified Date:
2004-08-12

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