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  • Government information about AIDS : this leaflet is being sent to every household in the country to inform everyone about AIDS, in order to help stop the spread of this serious disease. It deals with matters of health and sex that may be disturbing. Please make sure that everyone in your household who may need this information sees this leaflet : stop press, special AIDS line 0800 555777 /c[issued by the Department of Health and Social Security].
  • A black female silhouette figure with a purple drape and long hair dancing to the left representing an advertisement for a programme about Women's Rights to commemorate World AIDS Day in Honduras. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A dentist and nurse tending a patient in a chair, a woman holding up a test tube filled with blood and three surgeons in green coats and face masks; a warning about the dangers of contaminated blood and transmission of the AIDS disease. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A warning about the hazardous and the non-hazardous practices in relation to the transmission of AIDS issued by the Bundesministerium für Jugend, Familie, Frauen und Gesundheit [Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health]. Colour lithograph.
  • A man dressed in white with a blue turban holding a white sack greets a woman in a blue sari and her child on a rural road next to her hut; his horse and cart with further white sacks wait idle nearby; with a message about the dangers of having unprotected sex with foreign women; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • A man apparently with an STD looking alarmed as he holds up a sheet to cover his genital area; with three further anxious men and women with similar complaints to the right; a warning to seek treatment for STD's by the National AIDS Control Project in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A man pulling a condom over his body to protect himself from an approaching man wearing a grass skirt and devil's horns representing a personification of the AIDS disease; he holds a spear that breaks on impact with the condom; an advertisement for the AIDS Awareness Programme by the Pache Trust in Madurai, India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A naked woman with extending yellow hair with a baby in her womb illustrated with white stars and a flower; a warning to women to protect their babies from AIDS by the Oficina Para la Prevencion y Lucha Contra el Sida and Organization Panaermicana de la Salud. Colour lithograph by Marco Caamaño, 1994.
  • A map of Kuwait in the national colours of red, black, green and white with silhouette black figures of men, women and children within a circle bordered at the top by Arabic script: the logo for Kuwait National AIDS Committee; within a backdrop of a cityscape of Kuwait City representing an advertisement for the Kuwait Third International Conference on AIDS at the Kuwait Sheraton on 12 to 14th February 1990. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A man flexing his muscles with two faces and a baby visible in his legs with figures performing gymnastics, a man with 2 women and a couple; one of 4 drawings by students of C. C. Sweeting Senior High School, Nassau, Bahamas for World AIDS Day, November 1993. Photocopy reproduced from a drawing, 1993.
  • Recto: Men and women dressed in white holding up a section of the 'Patchwork of Names' [AIDS memorial quilt] with a couple holding hands below, further details of people working on the quilt and a view of crowds with the quilt on the ground; verso: text in four blocks referring to the origin of 'Le Patchwork des Nomes' in France and extract quotes from dedications that appear on the quilt. Colour lithograph by Sophie Vinualés.
  • Recto: Men and women dressed in white holding up a section of the 'Patchwork of Names' [AIDS memorial quilt] with a couple holding hands below, further details of people working on the quilt and a view of crowds with the quilt on the ground; verso: text in four blocks referring to the origin of 'Le Patchwork des Nomes' in France and extract quotes from dedications that appear on the quilt. Colour lithograph by Sophie Vinualés.
  • A man and woman between curtains in which a penis is enveloped at the top with a set of three further images of a woman's face, a person injecting and a half skeletal face of a woman within frames composed of bones; the words 'Women' and 'AIDS' emblazoned across the poster in pink lettering; a winning poster for World AIDS Day by Manuel Pagaragan, Jr. of Ferrington High School, Oahu, Hawaii. Colour lithograph.
  • A young man and a woman finish painting a poster advertisement about AIDS featuring a body with crossed out symbols; a young man and woman on the left discuss the issues raised in the poster with their colleagues; an advertisement about AIDS and youths by Federal Agency for Clear Health, on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Youth, Family, Women and Health. Colour lithograph, 1988.
  • Humphrey Bogart wearing his characteristic coat and hat and smoking, with a message about how he always wore appropriate clothing to protect himself; an advertisement for condoms and safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Senate Department for Health and Social Affairs and the Senate Department for Women, Youth and Family in Berlin. Colour lithograph.
  • A smiling sun with hearts and hands with thumbs pointing up to diagrams illustrating activities in which AIDS is not transmitted including a hand shake, two women sharing food, a man receiving blood transfusion and a couple kissing; also featuring a storm cloud and hands pointing to crossed out diagrams of a couple sharing a needle and a couple having unprotected sex; an advertisement for illustrated cards developed by L'AIPS and Le Kiosque in association with Marie de Paris and EMIPS. Colour lithograph.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • Childbirth, or the happie deliverie of women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women ... together with the diseases which happen to women. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them / Written in French by Iames Gvillimeav.
  • The diseases of women with child, and in the child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours, with fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes, to which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women / written in French by Francis Mauriceau, and translated by Hugh Chamberlen.
  • A personified penis wearing a condom in bed to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A fund-raising fete in aid of the Hospital for Women, held at Grosvenor House, Park Lane. Wood engraving.
  • A personified penis holding a condom in a cosmetic jar, to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. To which is prefix'd an Anatomical treatise ... Written in French / ... Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M. D.
  • In aid of the wounded women and girls who are in hospital : it was on the fifth of December, they'll never forget that night.
  • The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for ... indispositions of new-born babes ... / Translated, and enlarged with ... marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen.
  • The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for ... indispositions of new-born babes ... / Translated, and enlarged with ... marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen.
  • A personified penis throwing a lifebelt in the form of a condom to a drowning penis, to illustrate the use of condoms as a protection against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases including AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • A cream condom with a gradually fading list of sexually transmitted diseases crossed out representing an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A cream condom with a gradually fading list of sexually transmitted diseases crossed out representing an advertisement for safe sex to prevent AIDS by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.