Title:

A Man Who Shoots Up Can Be Very Giving. He Can Give You and Your Baby AIDS

Creator:

National Institute on Drug Abuse

Date:

[1980s]

Description:

As scientists during the early 1980s uncovered the mechanism by which AIDS is transmitted, public health agencies launched educational campaigns that warned, as did this poster, against the risk of infection from intravenous drug use and the sharing of contaminated needles, unprotected intercourse, and the transmission of the AIDS virus from mother to child.. 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 Collection.. 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. A025099

Legacy ID:

QQBBSL

NLM ID:

101584930X297

Profiles Collection:

The C. Everett Koop Papers

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584930X297

Story Section:

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