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Condoms as Safer Sex

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If you won’t kick an old habit, start a new one, 1988

Risky behaviors could be made safer; sex with a condom or injecting with a clean needle both minimized the likelihood that a person with AIDS would pass it on to a partner. This poster offers both solutions, as well as appealing to the reader’s sense of responsibility to protect others by making choices to stay safe.

  • Publisher(s):
    AIDS Administration Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
  • Type:
    Poster
Color photograph of a line of syringes with a condom on the far right.
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    If You Won’t Kick An Old Habit, Start A New One.

    Old habits don’t die easily. But unfortunately people with AIDS can. So protect yourself, and those you love. That way, if you must inject, you won’t infect.

    Use Condoms. There’s Living Proof They Stop AIDS.

    Maryland AIDS Hotline 1-800-638-6252/(Baltimore) 945-AIDS

    Copyright 1988 Created by McAdvertising/Type: Phil’s Photo and TypEsthetics/ Photograph: Jerry Seidl/ Client AIDS Administration-Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

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