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Needle sharing

Images

  • How AIDS can and cannot be transmitted; an advertisement by AIDS-Hilfe Salzburg. Colour lithograph.
  • A syringe forming the 'i' of AIDS with the message: "AIDS. Don't trust other people's fixes" representing an advertisement by the AIDS-Koordination NRW. Colour lithograph by Papen, Hansen.
  • A hand offers a syringe to another hand with a warning about transmission of AIDS through needle-sharing. Colour lithograph, 1988, for the Coordination Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs (French Community in Belgium).
  • A message about how AIDS spreads with the word 'AIDS' in letters with red blood vessel-like roots; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, ca. December 1993.
  • A young black man in a tracksuit holding a towel representing the risks involved in dabbling with drugs; advertisement about AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1993.
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Catalogue

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    A large syringe about to inject into a row of arms with a personification of the HIV virus bearing a red bandana and the pronged fork of the devil lurks nearby; a warning about the dangers of sharing needles by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 678381i
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    Four deaf men signing the message 'Stop AIDS. Use Condoms. Don't share needles'; a safe sex advertisement for the deaf by the Moomba Deaf Association and Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations.Colour lithograph by Paul Drakeford.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 669787i
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    Two blurred figures with a warning about the risk of drug abuse and AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 667314i
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    A couple kissing within a syringe from which a drop of liquid containing a fetus is released with a warning about the risk of sex, drugs and AIDS; advertisement for the Louisiana AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 667910i
    • Books

    Needle sharing among intravenous drug abusers: national and international perspectives / Editors, Robert J. Battjes, Roy W. Pickens.

    | Date: 1988
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