Not until you're diagnosed HIV positive do you discover how sick people can get. [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Not until you're diagnosed HIV positive do you discover how sick people can get. [inscribed]

Date

1987/2004

Place of Origin

London (England)

Publisher

National AIDS Trust (U.K.)

Language

English

Collection

AIDS Posters Collection

Notes

Description

Poster depicts HIV case study list, and is in black and white.
Date on back of poster, 2004, reflects when the vendor received the copy later acquired by the UCLA Library.
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, item UK040.

Physical Description

Condition note

Additional poster text: Hate mail. Abusive phone calls. Even aggressive confrontations and physical attacks. This is how some people who are HIV positive are treated. And not just by strangers. By work colleagues, by former friends and sometimes even by close family. And it's not unheard of either for people with HIV to be discriminated against by health workers. Yet the fact is, there's no reason for them to be treated differently from anyone else. You can't contract HIV by working or socialising with someone who has it. And thanks to new treatments, its possible for people with HIV to lead full and active lives. All that's stopping them is other people's ignorance. Are you HIV prejudiced? To learn the facts, go to www.areyouhivprejudiced.org. By ending ignorance, we'll end prejudice.

Keywords

Genre

posters

Location

Great Britain

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Stigma (Social psychology)
Ignorance (Knowledge)
Toleration
Prejudice
Discrimination
Documents
HIV-positive persons