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The tradesman who confronted the pestilence

The City of London, 1665. As the Great Plague hits the capital, John New faces a deadly dilemma.

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The secret sting of cystitis

Agnes Arnold-Forster recounts her experiences of cystitis, explaining how this illness intersects with sexism, shame, and stigma from medical professionals.

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Jim, the horse of death

Horses’ blood was used to produce an antitoxin that saved thousands of children from dying from diphtheria, but contamination was a deadly problem. Find out how a horse called Jim was the catalyst for the beginnings of medical regulation.

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The child whose town rejected vaccines

Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.

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  • Precautions for AIDS infection control in Philippines
  • A list of universal precautions for infection control by the National AIDS/STD Prevention and Control Program, Department of Health, Philippines. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The risks of getting HIV infection including a table with statistics; part 2 of 2 posters by the State AIDS Project Cell with support from Unicef. Colour lithograph by the Centre for AIDS Research and Control (CARC), ca. 1997.
  • The risks of getting HIV infection including a table with statistics (Malayalam version); part 2 of 2 posters by the State AIDS Project Cell with support from Unicef. Colour lithograph by the Centre for AIDS Research and Control (CARC), ca. 1997.
  • Treating eye infections in newborns as a result of STD's in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the STD Control Unit, Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Illustrations showing how AIDS is spread including two naked figures for sexual intercourse, a man being injected with infected blood, an infected woman during pregnancy and an infected blood transfusion; an advertisement for AIDS education from the Ministry of Health AIDS Control Programme. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • Illustrations showing how AIDS is spread including two naked figures for sexual intercourse, a man being injected with infected blood, an infected woman during pregnancy and an infected blood transfusion; an advertisement for AIDS education from the Ministry of Health AIDS Control Programme (French version). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995 (?).
  • The AIDS red ribbon with a list of some of the 10,000 people infected with HIV in Costa Rica; an advertisement to mark World AIDS Day by the Fundasida, Department of AIDS control, Ministry of Health, Costa Rica. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • AIDSTECH : technical interventions for the containment of AIDS / Family Health International.
  • AIDSTECH : technical interventions for the containment of AIDS / Family Health International.
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