The Austrian magazine for men Vangardist decided to launch in its edition of May, a roll of copies that were printed with ink mixed with the blood of three people infected with the AIDS virus.
On the front page it is noticed in maroon letters "This magazine has been printed with the blood of HIV + people. Now the matter is in your hands. " From the total roll of 18.000 specimens, 3.000 have been allocated to this initiative and each of them comes wrapped in a sealed plastic bag with inscription "Break the seal and break the stigma".
Its founder and editor Carlos Andrés Gómez, a Colombian entrepreneur who has been driving this editorial project for 5 for years, affirms that the objective of this curious initiative is to break the social stigmas and prejudices that still exist towards people carrying the virus and that many justify the increase in cases of contagion in recent times due to some relaxation and the perception that AIDS already has a cure.
In order to print the journal, strict sanitary controls should be followed to ensure that there was no risk of contagion for readers. Initially they found no laboratories willing to process and sterilize donors' blood, finally the Medical University of Innsbruck in Austria accepted the challenge.
The next step was to find a printer willing to let their machines come into contact with the blood of people infected with the virus. All the big companies rejected the proposal and only a small printing workshop, Forum Donau Druck, he ended up offering to do the work after overcoming certain reluctance. The business owner personally performed the task in a single night shift.
The magazine tells the story of three donors who have the peculiarity of positioning themselves differently against contagion. Since the full acceptance of Wyndham Mead a homosexual from 26 California years, to the anonymity of a recently infected heterosexual man who has not yet publicly accepted his situation. The trio closes it Wiltrut Stefaned, an Austrian woman who was infected by an abusive ex-husband. He currently has a long and happy relationship with an uninfected man.
Although some media have called the initiative grotesque, the conviction of its director is clear: "We want people to hold the magazine and make a comparison internally. There is nothing wrong with touching it, getting close, getting to know it, just as it does not in someone who is HIV positive".
The idea is that soon some issues of the magazine will be sold in order to raise funds to help fight the spread of the virus.
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