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Two ladybirds copulating (above) and a condom (below), with the message that the condom preserves from AIDS and not from pleasure. Colour lithograph by Comed for the Ministère de la Santé, Division de la Médicine Préventive, Luxembourg.

Three packets of blue condoms in the shape of male genitalia with the message 'progress or not, one still dies of AIDS'; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Comed for the Ministère de la Santé, Division de la Médicine Préventive, Luxembourg.

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Two ladybirds copulating (above) and a condom (below), with the message that the condom preserves from AIDS and not from pleasure. Colour lithograph by Comed for the Ministère de la Santé, Division de la Médicine Préventive, Luxembourg.

Three packets of blue condoms in the shape of male genitalia with the message 'progress or not, one still dies of AIDS'; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by Comed for the Ministère de la Santé, Division de la Médicine Préventive, Luxembourg.