At this time,AIDS/HIV was still primarily unknown in Vancouver and Tiko Kerr found himself living in an unsympathetic provincial conservative government that looked to protect "healthy citizens" from harm than give better care, treatment and understanding to those infectived with the HIV virus.
In 1987 Kerr created the poster for the Stop AIDS Project, which under the guidance of Bob Tivey was the first public awareness event and art exhibition relating to AIDS in Vancouver [REF].