01/12/2014
On World AIDS Day (1 December) take some time to look back at how the world responded to the AIDS epidemic by browsing our international collection of over 3000 AIDS posters online.
When AIDS gripped the world in 1981, the dissemination of public health posters experienced a resurgence unseen since the Second World War. Local authorities, healthcare providers and governments used health posters as a way to inform people about the new deadly disease. These public health campaigns endured for over 20 years and still are on-going in some parts of the world today.

Two naked male bodies representing a poster for a conference on HIV. Published: West Midlands Regional Health Authority (England) [19–]. Wellcome Library reference no. 666591i.
![A South African AIDS poster, published by: Moving Images [ca. 1996?]. Wellcome Library reference no. 646419i.](http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/aids4.jpg)
A South African AIDS poster, published by: Moving Images [ca. 1996?]. Wellcome Library reference no. 646419i.

An AIDS prevention advertisement by the Korean Anti-AIDS Federation Inc. Published: [1995]. Wellcome Library reference no. 677749i.
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Author: Gillian Daniel is a Graduate Trainee at the Wellcome Trust.
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