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A poster with repeated images of a Black woman with sunglasses and green hair with white text

AIDS Posters: A Community Tool Used to Save Lives

December 1, 2021 Circulating Now

Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Theodore (ted) Kerr to discuss his research in the AIDS poster collection at the National Library of Medicine and his

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Multi-color magazine spread showing 200 stamp-like pictures of chairs with names of AIDS victims in the fashion industry

Visualizing World AIDS Day

November 29, 2019 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS and to commemorate

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Panel from a prenatal health poster from the March of Dimes.

March in February: Congenital Heart Defects Awareness

February 14, 2019 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~ Today is Valentines Day, a day associated with hearts. In fact, the entire month of February is American Heart Month.

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A nurse in dark goggles sits by a patient lying with skin exposed to a bright electric light.

Don’t be SAD: A Very Brief History of Light Therapy

December 20, 2016 Circulating Now

By Michael Sappol As December 21, the shortest day of the year approaches, when the gray and dark is at its height and golden sunshine

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Drawing of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Trade Cards in The Fight Against AIDS

December 1, 2016 circulating now

By Ginny A. Roth ~     World AIDS Day is an international observance held on December 1st each year and an opportunity for people

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Nurses Organize

January 26, 2016 Circulating Now

This post is the fourth in a series exploring the history of nursing and domestic violence from the guest blogger Catherine Jacquet, Assistant Professor of

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A simple bar graph style chart titled American War Deaths and ranking deaths from various wars in comparison to AIDS deaths, with AIDS at 319,849 (through 1995) and World War Two at 291,557.

Surviving and Thriving: The Making of an Exhibition

December 1, 2014 Circulating Now

Dr. Jennifer Brier spoke today at the National Library of Medicine on “Surviving and Thriving: The Making of an Exhibition.” Dr. Brier is director of

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AIDS: Trading Fears for Facts. A Guide for Teens. Image Copyright K. Haring '88.

Getting to Zero: World AIDS Day

December 1, 2013 Circulating Now

By Erika Mills ~ Currently, 35 million people around the world are living with HIV. Many lack access to vital information and resources that would

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