Intermezzo: AIDS prevention Ads 1987 vs. 2008

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

The Grim Reaper 1987 The Glam Reaper 2008 [email_link] Related posts:Ads for Aids Following up on the difficulty to produce efficient and appropriate...Which gay men should be the target for prevention work? Roger Peabody commented at AIDSMAP on two presentations made at... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

INTERMEZZO: Ismet Dural Circumciser

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

Healthy People by Grey a Turkish advertising agency based in Istanbul created this advert for Ismet Dural a circumciser who owns a clinic and wanted a cheap way to advertised his business in his local area. "We created a poster with perforated edges. This way the consumer was also participating to ...

Big Pharma, Mercantilism and HIV

Monday, August 25th, 2008

It was bound to happen. With the development of anti retroviral therapies equally successful against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, the Pharmaceutical industry had to enter the competitive arena of the mercantilisation of AIDS's treatments and what best than using scary marketing techniques to sale drugs to fight a ...

Ads for Aids

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

Following up on the difficulty to produce efficient and appropriate advertising material promoting safe sex in the mainstream media, here are two ads based on the same imagery. On the left, a Stanfield's ad for a line of underwear, on the right a Terence Higgins Trust ongoing prevention campaign aiming ...

Sex sales… and increases traffic!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

It was quite a surprise to see the traffic to this blog suddenly jump from about 100 visits to more than 600 in one day after the post on discrimination in the toilets. Looking through the traffic statistics collected whilst people browse the web (thanks to the Big Brother ...