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Surviving & Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture

Native Peoples Respond to HIV/AIDS

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You can’t get AIDS by, 1989

Posters that offered direct and specific information about risks and practices were in danger of offending more conservative communities with social mores against discussing sex. This poster from the American Indian Healthcare Organization used traditional imagery to communicate with a Native audience, but an atypically direct approach when describing myths and risks of AIDS.

  • Publisher(s):
    American Indian Health Care Association
  • Type:
    Poster
Color photograph of a hand holding a club with feathers attached.
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    YOU CAN’T GET AIDS BY

    HUGGING, KISSING, MOSQUITO BITES, TOUCHING, SHARING GLASSES AND PLATES, SNEEZES, DONATING BLOOD, RECEIVING TESTED BLOOD

    YOU CAN GET AIDS BY

    UNSAFE SEX, INFECTED MOTHER TO UNBORN CHILD, SHARING NEEDLES

    American Indian Health Care Association 245 East 6th Street, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 612-293-0233

    Printed by Bolger Publications/Creative Printing, Minneapolis Minnesota, Photograph by Christopher Sheriff © American Indian Health Care Association 1989.

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