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Title: VIH/SIDA: os factos [inscribed]
Alternative Title: HIV/AIDS: the facts
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987/2002
Publication Information: Lisbon (Portugal)
Portugal. Commissão Nacional de Luta Contra a SIDA
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection: AIDS Posters Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Additional poster text: A SIDA não tem cura... Não discrimine!
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, item PO004.
Date on back of poster, 2002, reflects when the vendor received the copy later acquired by the UCLA Library.
Poster presents the facts about the transmission of HIV and AIDS. Divided into two parts, poster presents a sequence of images to separate the facts from the misperceptions. AIDS is transmitted through: unprotected sex, contact with contaminated blood, from mother-to-child during pregnancy and breast-feeding, and sharing of needles. AIDS is not transmitted through: food or silverware, mosquito bites, coughing and sneezing, shaking hands and hugging, use of public restrooms, safe sex (condom), and social contact.
Type: image
Identifier: PO004
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Language: Portuguese
Subject: AIDS (Disease)--Risk factors
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--transmission
Health education
AIDS (Disease)--Transmission
Source: AIDS Posters Collection

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