Friday, August 05, 2005

Scare tactics...

Earlier in the week, I photographed this public health warning at the local clinic in my wife's hometown of Floresti, Moldova:



The center panel traces the steps "from alcoholism to AIDS; it's just one step."


This poster is unsigned, but I like to imagine some artist who cut his/her teeth depicting the evils of fatcat capitalists or corrupt kolkhoz chiefs for the Soviet propaganda machine, but in the post-Soviet environment is able to produce posters that will hopefully save lives.

Related links:
AIDS.md
World Bank anti-AIDS program in Moldova
a synopsis of the dire situation from the UNESCO website
UNAIDS country page - Moldova

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