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  • Collection: A Public Health Crisis

AIDS Q&A pamphlet_1982.jpg
Initially ignored by mainstream America, gay people in every major city created a parallel system of volunteer-run service organizations to supply care, information, and referrals to those with AIDS.

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Initially ignored by mainstream America, gay people in every major city created a parallel system of volunteer-run service organizations to supply care, information, and referrals to those with AIDS.

Surgeon General Report on AIDS 1986.jpg
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop presented the government’s position on the epidemic in 1986 with straightforward and frank medical information.

Healthy Sex is Great Sex folded.jpg
The Gay Men’s Health Crisis distributed explicit material such as this 1982 brochure.

AIDS Guide to Protective Measures.jpg
Health care workers needed specific information about ways to protect themselves from infection.

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Sex education has always been a contentious topic in families, schools, and religious organizations. This 1986 textbook, published in San Francisco, was one of the first to tackle how to inform K–12 students about AIDS.

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Women with AIDS were predominantly poor and African American or Latina. They were excluded from clinical trials, and the official AIDS definition did not include diseases specific to women until 1993.

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Public health fotonovelas such as this 1989 booklet were adapted from a publication format already popular among Latinos.

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In 1987, the Centers for Disease Control launched a broad campaign to explain modes of transmission, risk, and behavior.

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Michael Callen and Richard Berkowitz, gay men infected with the virus, wrote this 1983 sex-positive guide.
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