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Rights of sick foreigners, Aides

Awareness campaign for the Aides association

Since the law of 16 June 2011, France can deport seriously ill foreigners to countries with no access to treatment. The posters say it with not a word too many: a face, dotted lines, numbers. "Discover the new treatment by folding the sheet along the numbers." Folded, the portrait becomes a coffin. The film makes the same gesture, writ large: on a tarmac, men and women climb alive into coffins, bound for their countries of origin. 6,000 HIV-positive people were under threat.

Rights of sick foreigners, Aides
Rights of sick foreigners, Aides

TV spot

Fifty-two seconds, without a word. On a tarmac, men and women walk in single file towards open coffins, climb in alive, and the lids close. What the poster makes the reader do, the film shows.

Press campaign

Two portraits, a man and a woman, crossed by dotted lines numbered 1 to 5. The poster reads like an instruction sheet: you fold, and the face closes into a coffin. The reader's gesture completes what the law prepares.

Paper plane print, flyer to fold into a paper plane
Paper plane print, flyer to fold into a paper plane
The explanation
The explanation

Credits

Agency: TBWA\Paris.
Creative directors: Eric Holden, Rémi Noël, Jean-François Goize.
Art direction: Matthieu Darrasse.
Copywriting: Alban Gallée.
Print campaign photography: Sven Hagolani (the woman), Joan Vincent Canto Roig (the man).
Music: That's my people, NTM.

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