For activists, HIV/AIDS was an emergency, a time of “any means necessary,” says Jessica Lacher-Feldman, co-editor of Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster. Her new book explores the ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Share on X (Opens in new window) Copy this page's address to your clipboard Edward Atwater, a physician in Rochester, NY. At 6,200 posters it is the largest ...

Forty years ago, a mysterious wasting illness linked to promiscuous sex and intravenous drug use became a global epidemic and the focus of a massive public health campaign and activist community. Now, ...

December 1 is the annual World AIDS Day observance. An estimated 78 million people have become infected with HIV, and 35 million people have died of AIDS-related illnesses since 1981. Up Against the ...

This week’s film is David Weissman’s We Were Here, which deals with the impact of HIV/AIDS in San Francisco from the early 1980s to the early 1990s. It will air on Thursday, June 14, 2012 at 10 PM ...

Keith Haring, "Ignorance = Fear/Silence = Death" (1989) (© Keith Haring Foundation; image courtesy Poster House; all other photos Amy Levine-Kennedy/Hyperallergic ...

Online collection of 625 posters from worldwide public health campaigns marks World AIDS Day. The collection should be of interest to anyone interested in the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and ...

OSIRE REFUGEE CAMP, Namibia, November 30 (UNHCR) - The 16-year-old refugee boy who inspired the UN refugee agency's poster for this year's World AIDS Day knows from personal experience the problems ...

University Gallery presents a satellite exhibition in collaboration with Memorial Art Gallery’s “Up Against the Wall” main exhibition, March 6 - June 19, 2022. The 42 HIV/AIDS posters in the RIT ...