Picturing AIDS: Using Images to Raise Community Awareness

In Botswana, explicit color photos of people with AIDS have been used to spread knowledge, with the aim of saving live

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<div><p>Don't Worry—Only a Few Sticks</p> <p>This slide is used in workshops to show that while we only see a handful of patients with symptomatic HIV, many more of us are HIV positive and are infecting others; we do not know our HIV status, since we have not been tested and we have no symptoms. (Illustration: TALC)</p></div