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America Responds to AIDS

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Getting high doesn’t cause AIDS, it just lets it happen, 1980s

This poster made a direct connection between intravenous drug use and contracting AIDS, relying on fear to motivate people towards placing a call to a hotline instead of providing prevention strategies.

  • Publisher(s):
    Department of Health and Human Services
  • Type:
    Poster
Black and white photograph of a African American man sitting on a ledge holding an African American woman standing in front of him.
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    Getting High Doesn’t Cause AIDS. It Just Lets It Happen.

    Find out more about how drug use and AIDS are related.

    Call the National AIDS hotline at 1-800-342-AIDS.

    The hotline for the hearing impaired is 1-800-AIDS-TTY.

    AMERICA RESPONDS TO AIDS

    U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES / PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE / CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL

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