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  • A dripping blood droplet against a yellow background representing an advertisement for blood banks as part of the AIDS prevention scheme by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. 1994.
  • A dripping blood droplet against a yellow background representing an advertisement for blood banks as part of the AIDS prevention scheme by the AIIMS Blood Transfusion Service and NGO AIDS Cell, New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. 1994.
  • The yellow silhouette of the features of a cat against black representing an advertisement for AIDS awareness by lAshraya, the AIDS Awareness and Counselling Centre, a Project of IMA Blood Bank. Colour lithograph by Meridian Ad Systems, Cochin, ca. 1998.
  • A gloved hand holding up a bird cage inscribed 'Blood bank' containing the HIV virus cell with the warning 'No escape for AIDS'; an advertisement issued by Ortho Diagnostic Systems, a division of Johnson & Johnson Limited. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • A male figure leaning on a staff with his arm around a female figure representing an advertisement for AIDS awareness by lAshraya, the AIDS Awareness and Counselling Centre, a Project of IMA Blood Bank. Colour lithograph by Meridian Ad Systems, Cochin, ca. 1998.
  • A bomb with a lit fuse representing AIDS as a time bomb waiting to explode; an advertisement for AIDS awareness by lAshraya, the AIDS Awareness and Counselling Centre, a Project of IMA Blood Bank. Colour lithograph by Meridian Ad Systems, Cochin, ca. 1998.
  • The Indian flag with a couple facing each other within the wheel of Dharma at the centre; an advertisement for AIDS awareness by lAshraya, the AIDS Awareness and Counselling Centre, a Project of IMA Blood Bank. Colour lithograph by Meridian Ad Systems, Cochin, ca. 1998.
  • An elephant with a blind man wearing glasses and holding a stick who prods the mammal in numerous places including hanging from its tusk; an advertisement for AIDS awareness by lAshraya, the AIDS Awareness and Counselling Centre, a Project of IMA Blood Bank. Colour lithograph by Meridian Ad Systems, Cochin, ca. 1998.
  • The hand of a woman pointing to a blood bag that has been tested for HIV representing a warning about the dangers of donating contaminated blood and AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1998.
  • Global blood safety initiative : objectives, principles and activities / World Health Organization Global Programme on AIDS.
  • Global blood safety initiative : objectives, principles and activities / World Health Organization Global Programme on AIDS.
  • Global blood safety initiative : objectives, principles and activities / World Health Organization Global Programme on AIDS.
  • An Indian couple, a vessel containing blood and a syringe; an anti-AIDS advertisement in Indic. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The British response to AIDS : technical programme for delegates to the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention : 29 January 1988 : Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Churchill Auditorium.
  • The British response to AIDS : technical programme for delegates to the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention : 29 January 1988 : Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Churchill Auditorium.
  • The British response to AIDS : technical programme for delegates to the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention : 29 January 1988 : Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Churchill Auditorium.
  • Ming herbal (painting): Siberian white crane
  • Entertainment ephemera. Box 1.
  • Ruscus aculeatus L. Ruscaceae Butchers Broom., Box holly, Knee Holly, Jew’s myrtle. Distribution: Mediterranean to Britain. Aculeatus means 'prickly' which describes the plant well. Dioscorides in 70 AD (Gunther, 1959) says of this plant ‘... ye leaves and berries drunk in wine have ye force to move urine, expel the menstrua, and to break ye stones in ye bladder ...’ and adds also ‘ ... it cures also ye Icterus and ye strangurie and ye headache.' Its use did not change for a millennium and a half
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935