Controversial Hitler AIDS Awarness Advert

The release of the new Regenbogen e.V. Hitler AIDS Awareness adverts, AIDS Is A Mass Murderer, have caused some controversy amongst several AIDS & HIV charities. They are pretty shocking and will be screened in Germany next week during AIDS Awareness Week and the advertising agency Das Committee have said "the shock value of the advert is designed to scare people into safe sex...the campaign is designed to shake people up, to bring the topic of Aids back to the centre stage, and reverse the trend of unprotected intercourse". However UK charity The Terrence Higgins Trust says "It is concerned the advert could be 'insensitive', by stigmatising people with the condition". Both are fair comments I however feel that anything that is shocking enough to make people talk about a disease that has in recent years become less of a media focus is always worthwhile. I remember when you couldn't walk down the street without seeing a poster or open a newspaper without reading an advert not so much now-a-days. There is also another generation who are now having sex and were not around or were too young when the world initially stood up and recognised the disease. I remember the media was engulfed with statistics about Aids related deaths almost 30 million have died from the disease worldwide.I remember learning that Freddy Mercury died with the disease and thetribute concert which had so many musical icons all campaigning to bring about an awareness of Aids was all part of my education of the devestating effects of AIDS, there is a younger generation that missed out on all this.

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