Back between 1990 and 1995, the Kuwait Ministry of Health and Kuwait National AIDS Committee commissioned these posters warning people about the dangers of AIDS. I think the posters now look very kitsch and I’d love to get a hold of the originals if they are still around.
If you think these posters are cool, you can download the hi-res versions to print from the links below:
Octopus Poster
Shark Poster
Doctors Poster
Boy Scouts Poster
via @thalithuhuma
27 replies on “Local AIDS Posters circa 1990-1995”
Being a Bollywood writer, I love me some good camp.
1994/1995 I was in middle school when we had a research writing competition on this topic. It was my first ever experience ‘researching’ anything and sitting in front of a ‘committee’ to defend my research. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up joining the school science club and participating in every research competition for the following years.
what do u do now?
I work as an expert in my field at one of the international organizations in the US 🙂
Sounds ominous.
Why does the last poster have 2 men and a woman with kids?
it’s a complicated relationship…
Maybe it is about making sure to be safe if you are divorced and remarried? One kid with the one guy, another kid with the other guy?
Vertue … spelling like champions since 1965
What’s wrong with vertue?
It’s not a word cool guy.
I mean it’s possible that I’m completely illiterate cause I’m currently a student at a Russell group university. Vertue is an alternative spellings to virtue. Granted it’s no longer hip and trendy to people like you (still used in French) but it’s very much correctly spelt a word. tbh as i study Middle English literature (side subject) I found it very intriguing to see that word.
I mean its possible that you are totally full of shit, and this word is entirely misspelled, and that this spelling was never used in any iteration of English. Further to the you being full-of-shit theory, is the inconvenient fact that the spelling of a word in French has no bearing on a poster in English. Finally, giving more gravitas to the amount of shit that you are alleged to be full of, the spelling of virtue in French is vertu.
Other than that its a perfect answer! Keep up them skills.
I mean if it helps you feel that good about yourself then your so right. I speak French and it’s vertue just cause you saw a fancy phone called vertu doesn’t mean that’s how it’s spelt. It is possible that you created the French language, it is completely plausible. You are more than welcome to gimme your highly anticipated opinions on my comments, without you barking at me life becomes meaningless. I can now clearly see that I wasted my time and government money going to a uni, I really should have just sat next to you and absorbed your mighty knowledge through osmosis.
Yes you did waste government money. No you can’t sit next to me. No osmosis for you! More importantly, its vertu in French. Vertue is absolutely fucking incorrect. You could have googled it at least. I don’t know about you, but I am starting to believe those aforementioned allegations of shitfullness.
Chip, this dude’s sounding like a guy I went to school with, ironically with the same name. He was full of shit then, I’d like to believe that he’s not full of shit now but from the comments, I think he still is. May this be your vertue.
Yes, bring on the boy scouts to combat AIDS.
I thought just being in the boyscouts was enough of a contraceptive
lmao
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and season’s greetings! 🙂
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The Octopus thing looks like something from a James Bond movie! 🙂
or a b-rated scifi
lol, even better :p
More like an exact replica of jaws movie poster.
That is an amazing website by the way!!