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Danish poster warning against tuberculosis
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Chinese anti-tuberculosis poster
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Nationwide campaign urging mass screening for TB
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A happy family gathers in a living room.
Scientist studies TB
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Poster of a girl covering her face with a tissue
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Soldiers looking at a clean-cut girl
Poster depicting safer sex
Anti-rat poster
Vermin feeding on trash
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Traps used to kill disease-carrying flies
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Poster depicting safer sex

Discover Safer Sex

Terrence Higgins Trust, London, mid-1980s.
Photomechanical print: color; 42 x 60 cm.

This poster is from the Love Sexy, Love Safe campaign, by the Terrence Higgins Trust, London.The precise nature of the activity is playfully obscured. Against the stigmatization of gay sex and AIDS sufferers as a source of contagion—and a larger atmosphere of panic—the poster presents sexual activity in a positive light and urges the use of reasonable measures to make sex safe.

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An icon of two overlapping people, indicating sexual contact.

Sexual Contact
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Safe Sex