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  • Illustrated safety tips on handling blood and syringes in English and Chinese; an anti AIDS advertisement by the Special Preventive Programme Department of Health, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Take care; don't share : AIDS is spread by sharing injecting equipment and having unsafe sex : free syringes, needles and condoms are avaiable from / Druglink ; designed by Miles Chambers.
  • An arm bearing a heart plaster and holding a bag of blood and syringes wrapped in yellow ribbon: appeal for blood donors in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Two syringes with a public warning about the importance of needle sterilization to prevent the spread of diseases like AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministry of Health, Fiji and World Health Organization. Colour lithograph.
  • A blood transfusion bag representing an advertisement for sterilisation of needles and syringes to prevent AIDS; by the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by Ayuha (?), ca. December 1992.
  • You can't get HIV from : giving blood, insect bites, glasses, cutlery, towels, toilet seats, shaking hands, sharing meals, cups, kissing : you risk getting HIV by sharing needles or syringes, having unprotected sex / LHB.
  • Angels drawn by children fly across red wires joined to syringes; advertising a family Christmas charity event in support of AIDS-affected children and their parents in Berlin. Colour lithograph for Kinder-AIDS-Forum e.V., 1993.
  • A cloaked figure of death bearing the word 'AIDS' on one sleeve and holding syringes that spill blood as if weapons; advertisement for the Sterile Needle Exchange by the Life Foundation Community Health Outreach Program. Colour lithograph.
  • A man holding a hypodermic syringe over a tub of diluted bleach; diagrams showing the use of bleach to clean hypodermic needles, with telephone details; advertising hygienic practices when using syringes. by , a support group for those with AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big-Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • Syringe
  • A parade of health professionals bearing vaccination syringes, drugs and banners, lined on each side by their victims' graves and topped by the grim reaper, presenting a satirical view of the medical profession. Reproduction of an engraving by Walter Harrison Cady, 1910/1930.
  • Pravaz syringe
  • Pravaz syringe
  • A warning that AIDS can be stopped by avoiding casual sex, using condoms, not taking drugs, or used syringes; with the numero verte helpline number; an advertisement by the Ministere della Sanità Commisione nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Hypodermic syringe, 1853
  • Numbered images and text including a family sitting talking, syringes with a red cross and a variety of condoms representing an advertisement from Laos for education about AIDS, the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and the importance of condoms and safe sex. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Ivory enema syringe
  • Pewter enema syringe
  • Ebony enema syringe
  • Ebony enema syringe
  • Pewter enema syringe
  • Ivory enema syringe
  • Ivory enema syringe
  • Pewter enema syringe
  • The "simplex" clyster syringe.
  • Rabbit health check, syringe feeding
  • Rabbit health check, syringe feeding
  • Lachrymal syringe of Domenique Anel
  • Lachrymal syringe of Domenique Anel
  • Enema syringe, London, England, 1866-1927