Thursday 21 November 2013

World AIDS Day Events at LSHTM Archives




For this year's World AIDS Day the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine archives will be hosting two events on the 2nd December 2013.



World AIDS Day: Global Visions


Monday 2rd December, 6pm-7pm, Manson Lecture Theatre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT


Evening seminar presenting the HIV/AIDS poster collections held by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine archive and the Wellcome Library.  The Wellcome Library holds one of the world’s largest digitised AIDS poster collections, with over 3000 posters. The LSHTM archives holds sizable collection of its own along with collected campaign ephemera and collected papers. Through the combined archives we shall explore changing attitudes to the disease and the dramatically contrasting cultural attitudes to sex from across the globe.

This joint event organised by the Wellcome Library and the LSHTM Archive will explore the digital and physical poster series of both collections and explore the key themes and contexts of these poster collections through our speakers, Professor Kay Wellings, Professor of Sexual & Reproductive Health Research at LSHTM and donor of the LSHTM poster collection and Julia Nurse, Content Officer at the Wellcome Library and cataloguer of the Wellcome AIDS poster collection.



World AIDS Day: Gems of the HIV/AIDS Collection


Monday 2nd December, 12-2pm, Manson Lecture Foyer, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT


The archives and rare book collections will showcase a display of library and archive material from our extensive HIV/AIDS collections. This includes posters, badges, condoms and other ephemera from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health (CSRH) collection; UK HIV/AIDS campaign material from the AIDS Social History Programme (1988-1994) and the archives of LSHTM Director, Peter Piot, whose archives reflect his the twenty five year experience in combating HIV/AIDS epidemic as both an epidemiologist and then as Executive-Director of UNAIDS, 1996-2008. 

The event is free and open to all. For more information about the World AIDS Day events or the HIV/AIDS archive collection please contact us, archive@lshtm.ac.uk



Selection of ephemera from the Centre for Sexual and Reproductive Health collection
  



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