Getting high doesn't cause AIDS. It just lets it happen

Item Overview

Title

Getting high doesn't cause AIDS. It just lets it happen

Alternative title

America responds to AIDS

Place of Origin

United States

Language

English

Collection

AIDS Posters Collection

Notes

Description

Part of the "American responds to AIDS" campaign.
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, item US020.
A black and white photograph of a clean cut young black man and woman sitting on a rooftop. The woman is in the man's lap and his arms are encircled about her. They both wear jackets, and they are staring into the distance, looking ahead and not at one another. The message is that taking drugs can lead to unsafe sexual behavior that may result in sharing the AIDS virus.

Physical Description

Dimensions

58 x 41 cm. (23 x 16 in.)

Condition note

Additional poster text: Find out more about how drug use and AIDS are related. Call the National AIDS hotline at 1-800-342-AIDS.

Keywords

Genre

posters

Location

United States

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Couples
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control
African Americans
Sex
Helplines
Drug abuse
AIDS (Disease)--Transmission