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Don't Forget the Chapter on AIDS
Don't Forget the Chapter on AIDS
Contributor(s):
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts The History of Medicine Division. Prints and Photographs Collection
Publication:
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts, [ca. 1987]
This poster deftly targets parents by drawing on the iconic power of a Norman Rockwell painting--a symbol of American family values. The poster was created by the AIDS Action Committee, a community-based organization of volunteers established in 1983 that provides support services for people living with AIDS and HIV, educates the public and health professionals, and promotes fair and effective policy at the city, state, and federal levels. Appealing to a sense of parental responsibility, and evoking a sense of nostalgia for a pre-AIDS world, the poster suggests that parents have a duty to inform their children, however resistant they may be to the subjects of disease, sexuality, and death.
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