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AIDS causes blindness, 1980s

Several advocacy campaigns focused on raising awareness about AIDS for employers and employees. Discrimination against people with AIDS (described here as blindness) was motivated by fear and ignorance. Posters like this addressed both with facts.

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    AIDS Action Committee
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    Poster
White poster with black lettering. A diverse group of people carrying picket signs and making angry gestures. Signs protest people with AIDS in the workplace.
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    AIDS causes blindness.

    AIDS Put AIDS out of work

    The work place is no place for

    AIDS KEEP AIDS OUT EMPLOYEES AGAINST AIDS

    People with AIDS know there’s a chance they’ll lose their sight. But that’s no reason for the people around them to lose sight of the fact that AIDS cannot be caught by touching someone. Or by working around them. Which means the best way to fight AIDS is not with fear and anger, but with compassion and support.

    AIDS ACTION COMMITTEE 661 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116 1-800-235-2331

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