Community health alert! syphilis is here

Loading details...

You do not have the permission to view Original image

Download

Copy Asset Link

Request this asset

Description

Text continues: "Are you a risk? L.A. County declares state of health alert syphilis outbreak. A surge of primary and secondary syphilis infections has been reported since March 6; all cases were men who reported having sex with male partners. You need to know that syphilis can go unnoticed and be easily spread. Syphilis and other STD's increase the spread of HIV. There is a 2 to 5 fold increased risk of acquiring HIV infection when syphilis is present. Co-infection of HIV and syphilis may complicate the treatment of both diseases. The risk of syphilis treatment failure increase in the presence of HIV. People with HIV and syphilis may be at higher risk for neurosyphilis. A single painless lesion may develop within 3-4 weeks of infection. Using a condom correctly and consistently can reduce the risk of STDs, including HIV. You can take action. Syphilis is a highly treatable disease. The spread of syphilis can be stopped by treating all recent sex partner before it can be spread to others. You can get tested." Black, blue, and red text on white background. The upper half of the poster contains a color photograph of two men sitting side-by-side; their lower halves wrapped in white towels.

Asset Metadata

Title Community health alert! syphilis is here

Subject Sexually transmitted diseases--Prevention (subject), syphilis (subject)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Place California (states), Los Angeles (city or populated place), USA (countries)

Type images

Format 1 print : photocopies, color (format), image/tiff (imt), posters (aat), sheet 44 x 28 cm (poster format).44 x 28 cm (poster format). (format)

Language English

Source ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials (subcollection), ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives (collection), University of Southern California (contributing entity)

Relation References Online Archive of California: https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c89p37jd/ (references)

Contributor Coll2018-001 ONE Archives LGBTQ Poster Collection (provenance)

Publisher L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center (original), Los Angeles (original), University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email askone@usc.edu

Repository Name ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives

Repository Location 909 West Adams Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, 90007; phone (213) 821-2771

Rights This item is protected by copyright. Copyright holder is unknown, unidentifiable or unlocatable. For more information, see https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC-RUU/1.0/?language=en

Access Conditions This online display has been made possible by a generous grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources. For access to the physical items, contact ONE Archives at askone@usc.edu; or...

Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/one-c4-46544

Identifier box 11 (box), P03536 (call number), one-2018001-p03536~01.tif (filename), one-c4-46544 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 46544

Unique identifier UC12337488

Legacy Identifier one-2018001-p03536~01.tif

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.9 in × 25.7 in at 300dpi
43.0 cm × 65.4 cm at 300dpi

Transcript (If available)

Content

,

SOUL eae
Are You At Risk

L.A. County Declares State of Health Alert
Syphilis Outbreak

e A surge of primary and secondary syphilis infections has been reported since March 6
e All cases were men who reported having sex with male partners

You need to know that...

¢ Syphilis can go unnoticed and be easily spread
¢ Syphilis and other STD’s increase the spread of HIV
e There is a 2 to 5 fold increased risk of acquiring HIV infection when syphilis is present
¢ Co-infection of HIV and syphilis may complicate the treatment of both diseases;

the risk of syphilis treatment failure increases in the presence of HIV

e People with HIV and syphilis may be at higher risk for neurosyphilis

¢ A single painless lesion may develop within 3-4 weeks of infection
e Using a condom correctly and consistently can reduce the risk of STDs, including HIV

You can take action...

¢ Syphilis is a highly treatable disease
e The spread of syphilis can be stopped by treating all recent
sex partners before it can be spread to others

You can get tested...

Los Angeles County Public Health Department STD Hotline: 800/758-0880
L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Lambda Medical Group: 323/993-7500

APLA (AIDS Project Los Angeles): 323/993-1600

AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF): 323/860-5200

www.lagic.org/std

Sponsored by L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, AIDS Project Los Angeles and AIDS Healthcare Foundation

x

Inherited Values

Title ONE Archives: Posters and Graphic Materials

Description ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives is the oldest active Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning (LGBTQ) organization in the United States and the largest repository of LGBTQ materials in the world. Founded in 1952, ONE Archives currently houses over two million archival items including periodicals, books, film, video and audio recordings, photographs, artworks, organizational records and personal papers.

A small subset of this material has been digitized and is available online.

For additional information about the Archives, please see our Website (https://one.usc.edu/).

ONE Archives’ digital collections have been made possible by generous support from the California State Library (https://www.library.ca.gov), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) (https://www.clir.org/), The GRAMMY Foundation (https://www.grammy.com/grammy-foundation), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) (https://www.neh.gov/), ONE Archives Foundation (https://www.onearchives.org), and a USC Libraries Dean's Challenge Grant.

Linked assets