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  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy) harvested.
  • An opened condom packet representing an advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of AIDS by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • Jennie Reyes, mother of a son who died of AIDS with a warning in spanish about how children can be infected with the disease; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Black and white lithograph.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • A man absurdly well-prepared for the cholera epidemic of 1832; representing the overabundance of questionable remedies and protections against cholera. Etching, c. 1832.
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)
  • Two wedding rings representing the safety of being faithful in long-term sexual relationships; advertisement by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • Detail of "A scandal in Bohemia".
  • A pair of open hands with the dots of a telephone receiver at the centre and a list of the type of things that the SIDA Info Service dares to talk about including sex, love and drugs; advertisement for the SIDA Info Service. Colour lithograph by Stratéus and Conception Polymago.
  • Opium pipe.
  • Cannabis Sativa (Hemp)
  • 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 warning in Italian purple lettering that 'Drugs exist. Talk about it'; one of a series of safe sex posters from a 'Stop AIDS' poster campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero, in collaboration with the Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A vicar prays for a dying usurer while his wife receives medical advice. Mezzotint by B. Clowes after W. Dawes, 1768.
  • Nanoparticles for drug delivery
  • An opened condom packet representing an advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of AIDS by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • A skeletal figure surveying three doctors around a cauldron, a parody of Macbeth and the three witches; promoting James Morison's alternative medicines. Lithograph.
  • People huddled together within prison walls edged with barbed wire with a lone figure bottom right suggesting the social isolation of someone who has AIDS; an advertisement for the information line for those affected by AIDS in prison by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph.
  • 'The Dying Detective', syringes
  • Moorish tailor and wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • Head servant with his wife offering him betel leaves. Gouache drawing.
  • 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 man selling opium; nearby a woman breast feeds her baby. Engraving by F. W. Topham, c. 1840, after W. Muller.
  • Indian barber and wife. Gouache drawing.
  • Opium pipe
  • Ampoules of Diazepam for injection. Diazepam is a sedative and anti-anxiety agent. It is the generic name for Valium .
  • A man with pills and capsules and a woman with a syringe illustrating the message take drugs in the form of tablets and capsules not through unnecessary injections; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the State AIDS Project Cell for World AIDS Day 1994. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • Nanoparticles for drug delivery
  • A transvestite nurse attending a man yelling with pain on a hospital bed; advertising fair rates of medical insurance for people who are sick or dying of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Wolfgang Mudra and Jürgen Rocholl for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., 1992.
  • Papaver somniferum (Opium poppy)