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Surviving & Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture
America Responds to AIDS
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What have you got against a condom?, 1980s
Publisher(s):
Centers for Disease ControlType:
Poster
The explicit question here—what have you got against condoms—references both the political struggle at the federal level over making condoms widely available in the 1980’s, and also the new social imperative brought on by AIDS that more Americans needed to embrace condom usage. In his 1985 special report on AIDS, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop called for AIDS education, specifically about condom usage, to begin with young children “so that children can grow up knowing the behaviors to avoid to protect themselves from exposure to the AIDS virus.”