When Sick, Come to the Dispensaries and You Will Receive Proper Medical Care
A line drawing shows a medical worker with a red-cross armband examining a villager while a mother holds a child and a man in a headband stands with folded arms beneath a tree. A large red cross and a one-line invitation, 'If anyone is ill, please come to the dispensary and you will be cared for', fill the lower half. The red cross carries the credibility of a medical emblem to the offer of care.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1965
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- Republic of Vietnam government health service message, as issued in the U.S.-Vietnamese psychological warfare poster series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Johnson Administration
- Leader
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- Health, War and the military
- Event
- Vietnam War
- Source
- Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Psychological Warfare Posters, Vietnam War (NAID 561393), retrieved October 3, 2026
- Rights
- NARA Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Republic of Vietnam government health message, U.S.-Vietnamese psychological warfare poster series. National Archives and Records Administration, 306-VP-8-995.
Text on the object
NẾU AI ĐAU, XIN CỨ ĐẾN PHÒNG CHẨN BỊNH CÁC BẠN SẼ ĐƯỢC SĂN-SÓC. SP-995
IF ANYONE IS ILL, PLEASE COME TO THE DISPENSARY; YOU WILL BE CARED FOR. SP-995
