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World AIDS Day: Visual Culture and Communities

November 30, 2023 Circulating Now

By Christie Moffatt and Elizabeth A. Mullen ~ Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS

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Education in the Eighties: Preserving HIV/AIDS Audiovisuals

December 1, 2020 Circulating Now

By Sarah Eilers ~ This year, the Historical Audiovisuals Program at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), with support from the Exhibition Program, digitally preserved

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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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World AIDS Day December 1 logo

Archiving HIV/AIDS on the Web

December 1, 2017 Circulating Now

Christine Wenc describes her work to develop a web archive to provide historians, healthcare providers, and biomedical researchers with significant historical data for their present and future work.

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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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Detail from the cover of the Understanding AIDS brochure.

Challenging an Epidemic of Misinformation

December 1, 2015 Circulating Now

By Christie Moffatt The focus of this year’s World AIDS Day is on challenging myths and focusing on facts about HIV, rethinking stereotypes and being

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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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Annually on December 1st, World AIDS Day energizes the public to unite in the fight against AIDS and to commemorate those individuals who have lost their lives to the disease. This year’s theme “Let Communities Lead,” speaks to the power of communities to connect and protect as well as to monitor and advocate for access to resources and accountability from authorities.
In celebration of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, we are sharing a portrait of Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (1876 - 1952), the second Native American woman to hold an M.D. degree. Visit NLM's "Changing the Face of Medicine" exhibition site to learn more about her life and work: Link in Bio or https://loom.ly/GatkWhg
Pardon me, but it's already Thanksgiving Eve?
Today we join the nation in remembering former First Lady Rosalynn Carter who passed away yesterday after a lifetime of service.
🎃 Pumpkin season is here! This week, the Circulating Now blog explores early works with pumpkins in the NLM collections, from the 1597 book "The Herbal or Generall Historie of Plantes" with woodcut illustrations to an 1898 journal citation discussing a pumpkin seed in the bronchus.
Gather round the piano for this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty theme of #ArchivesFamilyPhotos, hosted by @usnatarchives. Pictured here is American geneticist Barbara McClintock singing by the piano with her family (including the family dog 🐶) around 1914. Almost 70 years after this picture was taken, she won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of genetic transposition, or the ability of genes to change position on the chromosome.

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