Title:

AIDS: Get the Facts

Date:

[ca. 1986]

Description:

"AIDS: Get the Facts" and "If You've Had Two Sex Partners" represent a common didactic and informative approach to AIDS educational posters that does not use images to supplement text. Their respective content and approach, however, are dramatically different. This poster illustrates a traditional information-based preventive effort that focuses on transmission without providing any explicit information. The viewer is directed to "Get the facts," yet the poster itself only vaguely refers to "a few ways" AIDS can be transmitted, suggesting, "We know what those ways are." The poster proposes, "We can all learn how to prevent AIDS," but fails to begin that process.. NOTE: Slide of original poster image is slightly blurry.

Original Repository:

The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection

Rights:

Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine.

Disclaimer:

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Genre:

Posters
Slides (photographs)

Subject:

HIV and Public Health

Format:

Still Image

Extent:

1 pages

Relation:

If You've Had Two Sex Partners, 1986

Language:

English

Legacy Source Citation:

Original Repository. History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection. 11611. 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. A025235

Legacy ID:

VCBBFW

NLM ID:

101584655X75

Profiles Collection:

Visual Culture and Health Posters

Shareable Link:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/101584655X75

Story Section:

HIV/AIDS