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Providing care across languages

When medics are taught in English but their patients speak other languages, effective communication becomes fraught. Niyoshi Shah explores the linguistic gaps between patient and doctor.

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The colonist who faced the blue terror

India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.

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  • A message about how Jesus does not discriminate against those with AIDS by Mokukchung, a Christian Pastor in India; an AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • An Indian truck driver had sex without condoms due to his ignorance of AIDS; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Five black and white syringes 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.
  • 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.
  • The red and white silhouette of a woman between 2 men representing a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for those with multiple partners; by the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi (red version). Colour lithograph by Prabin, ca. January 1993.
  • The red and white silhouette of a woman between 2 men representing a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for those with multiple partners; by the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by Prabin, ca. January 1993.
  • The blue and white silhouette of a woman between two men representing a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement for those with multiple partners; by the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi (blue version). Colour lithograph by Prabin, ca. January 1993.
  • A man carrying a blue sack tied around his shoulder and a grey pouch with a hut beyond in a rural setting; represention of a man leaving for another country to earn money not AIDS ; an advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • A man sitting with his arms around 2 women, the same man taking medication, then escorting his pregnant wife away from a rural health clinic [?] and then embracing their baby; a warning about the dangers of multiple partners and the importance of protection against AIDS by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • A fisherman who has AIDS hauling in a net of fish from his boat as his female partner stands holding a fish in one hand while balancing a large bowl of fish on her head within a red and turquoise dotted decorative border; with the message who will catch the fish (when he has died?); an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph for Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
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