Ryan White was the poster child for AIDS in the 1980s, drawing public attention to the crisis. But for many the stigma persisted. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV ...

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 ...

Poster Exhibit Chronicles the Fight Against AIDS by Heather Mack December 4, 2013, 6:00 am June 21, 2025, 10:12 pm. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X; Click to share on Facebook ...

The AIDS poster collection, which was donated to the University of Rochester by physician and medical historian Dr. Edward C. Atwater, is a reflection not just of the past, but also of our ongoing ...

Condoms as protection against AIDS became a major theme for poster campaigns. The above poster, paid for by the Baltimore-based non-profit Health Education Resource Organization, shows how visuals ...

Meet the 85-year-old doctor responsible for the largest collection of AIDS posters and view 30 historic images from all over the world. Dr. Edward Atwater didn't realize it then but he wasn't just ...

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 ...

Freddie Mercury Didn’t Want to Be a ‘Poster Boy’ for AIDS — But He and Other Celebrities Played a Key Role in Its History. 11 minute read.

The art of the AIDS poster A new collection shows 30 years of fascinating, frustrating, beautiful attempts to educate the world about safe sex. By Emma Mustich. Published November 3, 2011 9:40PM ...

Freddie Mercury Didn't Want to Be a 'Poster Boy' for AIDS — But He and Other Celebrities Played a Key Role in Its History. Olivia B. Waxman. Updated Fri, November 2, 2018 at 7:31 PM UTC.

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 ...

World AIDS Day is on December 1 and to celebrate, the folks at EA/Playfish have teamed up with (RED), the organization fighting for a cure for AIDS in Africa (and on a worldwide scale), to raise ...