Implement an HIV/AIDS treatment plan to save lives: use affordable, quality generic ARVs to treat 150,000 South Africans with AIDS by 2004! [inscribed]

Item Overview

Title

Implement an HIV/AIDS treatment plan to save lives: use affordable, quality generic ARVs to treat 150,000 South Africans with AIDS by 2004! [inscribed]

Place of Origin

Cape Town (South Africa)

Publisher

Treatment Action Campaign

Language

English

Collection

AIDS Posters Collection

Notes

Description

Poster is primarily textual, with 4 small images of South Africans depicted as advocates, organizers and patients. Poster advocates for the aggressive use of Antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to treat the 150,000 South Africans infected with AIDS by 2004.
Poster held by Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library. History & Special Collections, Collection no. 306, item SA001.

Physical Description

Condition note

"You can prevent HIV by using condoms & practicing safe sex at all times! If you test HIV positive and need treatment, Antiretrovirals (ARVs) can help. ARVs gave me back my health and took me back to my family and work." Vuyani Jacobs, one of 20,000 South Africans presently using ARVs.

Keywords

Genre

posters

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--prevention & control
HIV Infections--drug therapy
People
AIDS (Disease)--Prevention
Antiretroviral agents
Anti-Retroviral Agents--therapeutic use
HIV infections--Treatment

Location

South Africa

Resource type

still image