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The Grim Reaper is a 1987 Australian television commercial aimed at raising public awareness on the dangers of AIDS.Created as part of a $3 million [2] education campaign by the National Advisory Committee on AIDS (NACAIDS), the advertisement depicted the Grim Reaper ten-pin bowling in a bowling alley and knocking over men, women, and child "pins" which represented AIDS victims.
AIDS: Don't Die of Ignorance was a public health information campaign begun in 1986 by the UK Government in response to the rise of HIV/AIDS in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] [4] The government believed that millions of people could become infected, so newspaper adverts were published, a leaflet was sent to every home in the UK, [2] [5] [6] [7] and, most memorably, a television advertising ...
HIV prevention refers to practices that aim to prevent the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV prevention practices may be undertaken by individuals to protect their own health and the health of those in their community, or may be instituted by governments and community-based organizations as public health policies.
The World Health Organization is suggesting that all gay men take preventative HIV pills. HIV has been around for years, but little is known about the disease. Scientists and doctors are still ...
Mexican AIDS activist and director of CENSIDA, Mexico's top AIDS agency, since 2003. [87] Jim St. James (1954–1990) Canadian actor and activist best known for starring in a series of HIV/AIDS awareness commercials on Canadian television in the 1980s, and as the subject of a biography by journalist June Callwood. [88] Pedro Julio Serrano (born ...
Dallas Buyers Club a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée.The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when both the etiology and the treatment of HIV/AIDS are poorly understood and its sufferers subject to stigmatization.
Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" rally in Los Angeles, in 1987 "Just Say No" was an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S.-led war on drugs, aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.
In a new ad featuring comedian Pete Davidson called "The Apology," Taco Bell (YUM) is saying it's "sorry" for going "too far" for cooking up too many "innovative" breakfast offerings.