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A jagged yellow, blue and red design with four vignettes representing relationships and messages in German emphasizing self-help by AIDS patients: ; ; an advertisment for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph for the for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., 1996.

How AIDS can and cannot be transmitted; an advertisement by AIDS-Hilfe Salzburg. Colour lithograph.

Gay sex & AIDS : English / Buro GVO.

Ways in which you cannot catch the HIV virus from hugging to telephones; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph.

Six fashionable young men after a drinking session, all with girls in their arms. Engraving, c. 1796.

KISS : "tonsil hockey" : number two in a series of six information cards / Terrence Higgins Trust.

SEX... : free leaflet / The Terrence Higgins Trust ; painting illustrations by John Lupton ; design by Richard Green and Shelley Davies.

A collage directed by downward arrows of a photograph of a man, a woman, a drawing of a bed and a condom interpersed with lettering relating to a couple who meet but then come into contact with AIDS; one of a series of posters representing an advertisement for a competition for posters of images against AIDS. Colour lithograph by Delphine Chanet.

Kissing lesbian and gay couples lined up vertically along a pier with the sea either side and a horizon featuring the logo of the Cruzando Fonteras [crossing borders]; an advertisement for the International Week of Gay Liberation in Torremolinos and Malaga from 12th to 28th June [1995?]; coordinated by the Colega Gays y Lesbianas de Andalucía. Colour lithograph by Petí Comití, ca. 1995.

A negative image in black and blue of a naked man kissing a woman as he places one hand on her breast, the other on her groin; with the statement in German 'Be so kind!'; one of 9 safe-sex advertisements for the AIDS-Hilfe Wien. Colour lithograph by Matthias Hermann, ca. 1995.

The lips of a man and woman kissing with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. An HIV-positive man does not kiss'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.

Lipstick kiss marks scattered on a light background; representing promiscuity as a risk-factor for AIDS. Colour lithograph after V. Kozlík, 1989.

The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.

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A negative image in black and blue of a naked man kissing a woman as he places one hand on her breast, the other on her groin; with the statement in German 'Be so kind!'; one of 9 safe-sex advertisements for the AIDS-Hilfe Wien. Colour lithograph by Matthias Hermann, ca. 1995.

The lips of a man and woman kissing with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. An HIV-positive man does not kiss'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.

Lipstick kiss marks scattered on a light background; representing promiscuity as a risk-factor for AIDS. Colour lithograph after V. Kozlík, 1989.

The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.