AIDS: Don't Die Of Ignorance

This is the public information film that scared the fuck out of everyone in the 80s when Mrs Thatcher insisted on showing it during every commercial break which I thought was appropriate to post now considering rates of HIV are increasing.

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[jwood36]

ADIS: Don't die of dyslexia

[thecashinproject]

I think an advert like this is desperately needed today. It may not be the 80s anymore but HIV/AIDS hasn't disappeared. And people are far too complacent about it.

[vanpablo79]

101% correct to make these adverts frightening to children and should be re-shown now. Mrs Thatcher DID NOT insist on this being shown.

[cockywatchman1976]

Bring back this ad-and show some people ill from it or having to take all the meds. Might stop people screwing around without johnnies-many people still do

[Muckydoggy1]

This advert is exactly the reason why AIDS is 50% lower in the UK than mainland Europe.

[himjl2]

@iguanna41 Your comment shows just how stupid you are. It's highly unlikely that AIDS passed from monkeys to humans via sexual intercourse, most likely it was because somebody ate an undercooked monkey with a cut in their mouth or something. I'm white but people like you make me sick.

[1999straker]

they could do with re running this ad again now to stop the kids shagging around

[iguanna41]

I remember this back in 1987, it scared the hell out of me. It was niggers that spread this by shagging monkeys, so on the positive side don't shag a nigger & be free of AIDS.

[zakalon123]

@dpmhiaddict what are you talking about. These " adverts" that they made were a form of child abuse.

Research has shown us that you can make a serious point without scaring people witless.

No wonder we have a generation of screwed up adults, with the sinister " Public Information Advertisements"

showing kids they could be drowned, suffocated whatever, although in this case, you are going to contract a deadly disease and die. You can educate people without traumatizing them.

[sarahj182]

I'd rather die of ignorance than AIDS..

[dpmhiaddict]

Problem turns out that the film wasn`t hard hitting enough!

25 years old today, the fight continues.......wear a condom!!!

[Jynx359]

I was operating the rig which made the tombstone fall on the shoot! Nic Roeg was the director and it was shot just outside Ludlow.