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  • A syringe attached to a heart poised to inject into an arm; an advertisement for donating blood to save life. Colour lithograph by the National AIDS Organisation (NACO), September 1996.
  • 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 physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • A physician examining a bare breasted female patient, an older woman passes him a syringe, a bawdy couple are in the background. Mezzotint by A. de Blois after J. Steen.
  • A gentleman compares the size of his syringe with a physician's clyster; he says that his is for the other side of the body. Process print after J-A. Faivre, 1902.
  • A syringe with a bottle of liquid and a warning about the dangers of medicinal and recreational drugs and AIDS; an advertisement by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
  • A syringe with a bottle of liquid and a warning about the dangers of medicinal and recreational drugs and AIDS; an advertisement by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.
  • A doctor holding death at bay from his patient: illustrated by him squirting a syringe at a skeletal figure entering via the window. Line engraving by N. Goodnight, 1787, after S. Collings.
  • A hand with a syringe and a warning about the dangers of drugs and AIDS in Spanish; advertisement for an AIDS information line by the Long Beach Health Department. Lithograph by F (...).
  • A condom packet and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of sharing needles when taking drugs to reduce the risk of AIDS by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • A woman holds a needle and syringe alongside a series of images depicting safety instructions for disposal of used needles; an advertisement by Mainliners, a support group for those with AIDS. Colour lithograph.
  • A condom packet and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of sharing needles when taking drugs to reduce the risk of AIDS by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • A man's arm holds a syringe that is poised to inject a woman's arm within a red no entry sign; advertisement for the AIDS Project by the California Department of Health Services. Colour lithograph.
  • A blood red flame bearing a white syringe pointing up towards the word 'AIDS' in blue letters; a drug safety and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Committee on AIDS Hanoi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • 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 man's arm holds a syringe that is poised to inject a woman's arm within a red no entry sign; advertisement for the AIDS Project by the California Department of Health Services. Colour lithograph.
  • Surgery: an assortment of surgical instruments, including an instrument for the dilation of the foreskin, a cannula and a syringe for the bladder. Engraving with etching by B.L. Prevost after L.-J. Goussier.
  • 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.
  • A hand offering a syringe to another is stopped by a third hand representing a warning about the dangers of sharing needles and contracting AIDS. Colour lithograph for the Unidade Educaçāo para a Saúde, Macau, ca. 1995.
  • A drug user advised to use a clean syringe to prevent HIV/AIDS; an advertisement for the Drogues Info Service by the CFES and Ministère de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité, Secrétariat d'état à la Santé. Colour lithograph.
  • A syringe within a no entry sign and an embracing couple with advice on how to avoid catching HIV within a burgundy and pink decorative border; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. Colour lithograph.
  • A trail of blood spots with a syringe representing a warning about how to deal with spillages of blood infected with HIV by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad and Tobago. Colour lithograph by Illya Furlonge-Walker, ca. 1995.
  • A hand reaches out to another offering a syringe with a droplet of red liquid suggesting blood representing a warning about the dangers of sharing needles and AIDS by the Oregon Health Division with an AIDS helpline. Colour lithograph.
  • A man's hand holding a syringe poised to inject into his arm with five further smaller images showing the procedures for safe drug use; an advertisement by the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Torsten Schmidt and Detlev Pusch.
  • A woman with a loud speaker emitting the word 'SIDA' with an orange arrow incorporating a syringe with a foetus (?) below; a warning to women about the dangers of injecting drugs and contracting AIDS during pregnancy. Colour lithograph, ca. 1992.
  • A syringe, the silhouette of a man injecting himself, a couple talking and a man receiving a blood transfusion in a bed; a warning about the risks of contracting AIDS through drug abuse and contaminated blood. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician riding a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession that scares children; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A two-tone syringe with the words 'VIDAIDS' representing the message that the line that separates life from death is as thin as a needle; an AIDS prevention advertisement by ADG, Gapa and Senac. Colour lithograph by the Graphic Designers Association, 1992.