Jun 25 2008

French HIV Campaign is Sexy, not Scary

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Most countries now have some form of safer-sex public health campaign, but the message is usually some variant of “you will die!” Consider this poster from the Cameron Highlands, Malaysia (2004):

AIDS Poster in Malaysia

By comparison, a recent French campaign talks about sex as if it were a good thing, with their “Explore — just protect yourself” series:

French HIV prevention poster

This poster is really quite an exceptional piece of art, and well worth examining at full size (just click.) Additional information can be found here.

One Response to “French HIV Campaign is Sexy, not Scary”

  1. Colinon 23 Jul 2008 at 5:10 pm

    I’m not really sure which poster is more terrifying.

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