Visual Culture and Health Posters

Title:: None of These Will Give You AIDS

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Description:

Public health departments across the country established educational programs much later than voluntary organizations. It was not until 1987, for example, that the Illinois Department of Public Health created a special AIDS section to coordinate the state's response to the disease, with 2.3 million dollars earmarked for AIDS prevention and education programs aimed at physicians, drug users, and the general public. The poster to the left is designed to assuage fears about the possibility of casual transmission by depicting "safe" behaviors in the same way that other infectious disease campaigns modeled proper preventive behaviors. The viewer is told that handshakes at the office, eating at the local diner, using a public bathroom, and opening an average door are "safe" activities. While challenging misconceptions about spread of the disease, the poster fails to make any distinction between the virus of HIV, discovered in 1983, and its symptomatic manifestation with AIDS.

NOTE: Original is slightly blurry.

Number of Image Pages:

1 (745,640 Bytes)

Date:

1987

Creator:

Illinois Department of Public Health

Source:

Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.

This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).

URL: http://wwwihm.nlm.nih.gov/

IHM Order Number: A025159

Publisher:

New York Department of Health

Rights:

Reproduced with permission of the New York Department of Health.

Subject:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):: HIV; Public Health

Visual Culture and Public Health Keywords:: HIV/AIDS Transmission

Exhibit Category:

HIV/AIDS

Unique Identifier:

VCBBFS

Document Type:

Posters

Slides (photographs)

Language:

English

Format:

image/jpeg

image/tif

Physical Condition:

Good

Metadata Last Modified Date:

2004-08-13

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