Title:

Getting High Doesn't Cause AIDS. It Just Lets It Happen

Creator:

CDC

Date:

[1980s]

Description:

Public Health officials during the second half of the 1980s became concerned about the spread of AIDS particularly among minorities, a disproportionate number of whom were intravenous drug users, had no health coverage, and were thus were an increased risk to contract the disease.. NOTE: Original slide is slightly blurry.

Rights:

Public Domain

Genre:

Slides (photographs)
Posters

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Free Text. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Division.. Free Text. This image may also be accessed from the Images from the History of Medicine (IHM).. URL. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/. IHM Order Number. A031358

Legacy ID:

QQBBSK

NLM ID:

101584930X296

Profiles Collection:

The C. Everett Koop Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X296

Story Section:

AIDS, the Surgeon General, and the Politics of Public Health