Visual Culture and Health Posters
- Title:
- AIDS: Sharing Needles Is Just Asking for It
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- Description:
- Early reports on transmission identified shared hypodermic needles as primary vectors. As a result, many AIDS posters targeted intravenous drug-users. While some of these posters overtly reflected either the didactic quality or moral message of early AIDS posters, this powerful piece from Australia's National Advisory Committee's "grim reaper" campaign appropriately conveys the gravity of the subject. Even more important than the text, the morbid image of a skeletal hand clutching a needle sends a chilling message that associates the behavior with death, imagery also used in public health campaigns against infectious disease and smoking.
- NOTE: Slide of original poster image is slightly blurry.
- Number of Image Pages:
- 1 (324,752 Bytes)
- Date Supplied:
- ca. 1988
- Creator:
- Australian National Advisory Committee
- Source:
- Original Repository: The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection.
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- IHM Order Number: A026366
- Publisher:
- Australian National Advisory Committee
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- Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division.
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- Subject:
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- Medical Subject Headings (MeSH):
- HIV
- Public Health
- Visual Culture and Public Health Keywords:
- Target Populations
- Exhibit Category:
- HIV/AIDS
- Unique Identifier:
- VCBBGB
- 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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