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Title
These are some of the most painful symptoms of HIV and AIDS. Help us fight fear, shame, ignorance and injustice worldwide. [inscribed]
Date Created and/or Issued
1987/2004
[between 1987 and 2004]
Publication Information
Switzerland
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
Contributing Institution
UCLA, Library Special Collections, Medicine and Science
Collection
AIDS Posters Collection
Rights Information
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Description
Next to the UNAIDS slogan there is this sentence: Live and let live.
The poster shows a picture of different people with different ethnicities and different ages are talking with no fear about the people who have AIDS and HIV. Some of the examples of what these people said: "You're fired", "I don't want to hear about that", "Stay away", "you bastard", "I'm leaving you", "you're an unclean woman", "you've brought shame on your family", "we can't give you medication", "you're already dead", "the wedding is off", "I'm sorry but we can't come", "don't touch anything", "I loved you", "I thought you loved us", etc...
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, items UNA010_2 and UNA010_1 (back).
Type
image
Identifier
UNA010_1
UNA010_2
ark:/21198/zz0002wpxf
Language
English
Subject
HIV infections--Social aspects
People
AIDS (Disease)--Social aspects
AIDS (Disease)--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects
Source
AIDS Posters Collection

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