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Title
AIDS: we are all at risk
Alternative Title
AIDS is the most serious health threat our country faces. Every month 100 Papua New Guineans will catch the AIDS virus. Our sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, wantoks are all at risk.
Protect yourself from AIDS
Publication Information
Papua New Guinea
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection
AIDS Posters Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Top half of the poster is textual, with subheadings "How do you catch the AIDS virus?" "Why do we need to protect ourselves?" and "Let's talk about AIDS." Lower half of the poster depicts Dr. Clement Malau of the PNG National AIDS Council sitting at a desk. On the desk is a laptop computer with a map of Papua New Guinea on its screen, a microscope, and specimen tubes. The poster suggests the importance of open communication and scientific understanding of the causes and prevention of AIDS.
Date on back of poster, 2002, reflects when the vendor received the copy later acquired by the UCLA Library.
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, item PP001.
Type
image
Identifier
PP001
ark:/21198/zz0002ksck
Language
English
Subject
Scientists--Papua New Guinea
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control
Microscopes
Test tubes
AIDS (Disease)--Papua New Guinea
Laptop computers
Source
AIDS Posters Collection

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