An AIDS patient who wears his diagnosis on his t-shirt. Colour lithograph by Ines de Nil and Lilo + White for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.

[Berlin] : Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., [between 1990 and 1999]

1 print : lithograph, printed in grey, red and white ; sheet 67 x 47.9 cm

Ich will mich nicht verstecken. Als meine Krankheit begann, habe ich angefangen, die T-Shirts zu machen. Die meisten verstehen nicht, da jemand mit dieser Krankheit so offen umgeht, es so deutlich auf sein T-Shirt schreibt. Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Foto: Ines de Nil/Gestaltung: Lilo + White. Bears logo of Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Translation of text: "I will not hide myself away. When my disease started, I started to make T-shirts. Most people do not understand that someone who deals so openly with this disease writes it so clearly on his T-shirt" Extract from www.aidsmap.com: "About 8% of people with AIDS in Britain develop toxoplasmosis" which "most commonly causes lesions in the brain (cerebral toxoplasmosis). By exerting pressure on normal brain tissue these at first cause headache, fever, lethargy and confusion, progressing to fits, vision distortions, strokes (a weakness on one side of the body), changes in thinking and personality and difficulty speaking. Without treatment, as the abscesses grow bigger they can cause coma and eventually death."

.1, .2 and .3 are duplicates

Wellcome Collection 673864i

Ines de Nil Lilo + White [designers] Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. 199- Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. see http://www.aidshilfe.de/ for contact details of publisher 10/02/2009 Germany UkLW Transcription from the item