Australian TV campaign

In Australia, the Grim Reaper education campaign is launched, with television images of 'death' knocking down people in a bowling alley. Although widely criticised at the time, the advertisement succeeds in ensuring widespread discussion of AIDS at a time when it is stigmatised and taboo.

Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U219eUIZ7Qo
July 1987
Timeline date: 
1987-07-01