The following is adapted from the introduction I wrote to the catalog of Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985-2010, which will be shown for the first time in New ...

World AIDS Day 2023 Poster Drawing: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a serious health condition where people carry the transmissible HIV virus in their bodies. Given the seriousness of ...

Click for larger image 1987 – I Have AIDS. Please Hug Me. created by the Center for Attitudinal Healing In 1984, 13-year old Ryan White learned that he had contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion as ...

University Gallery presents a satellite exhibition in collaboration with Memorial Art Gallery’s “Up Against the Wall” main exhibition, March 6 - June 19, 2022. The 42 HIV/AIDS posters in the RIT ...

This week’s film is David Weissman’s We Were Here, which deals with the impact of HIV/AIDS in San Francisco from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. It will air on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 10 PM ...

AIDS educators in the Chicago area say the controversial AIDS poster that appeared on Chicago Transit Authority buses and at stations this week is not specific enough to teach anyone how to avoid AIDS ...

The illness that came to be known as AIDS made its first appearance in the medical literature on June 5, 1981, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, a publication of the U.S. Centers for ...

The flap over a controversial AIDS poster on the Chicago Transit Authority grew Wednesday as Mayor Richard Daley called for a compromise permitting ”less offensive” advertisements to be installed and ...

"I’m writing because I have a determination to live. You do, too — don’t you?" — Bobbi Campbell, "AIDS Poster Boy" At no point did Bobbi Campbell ask for permission. In 1981, the registered nurse took ...

Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now, ...

December 1 is the annual World AIDS Day observance. An estimated 78 million people have become infected with HIV, and 35 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses since 1981. Up Against the ...