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Injections, Intravenous

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Images about Injections, Intravenous

53 images from works
  • Numbered images and text including 2 images of a couple making love, a woman lying attached to a drip receiving a blood transfusion, a syringe injecting into an arm and a group of pregnant women; an advertisement from Laos about safe sex and AIDS prevention and the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and pregnancy. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Cambodian. Colour lithograph.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Chinese. Colour lithograph.
  • A couple sit up in bed looking around at numerous other couples making love in rows of beds; with smaller vignettes showing someone receiving a drug injection, a needle piercing an arm and a range of condoms; one of a series of 4 AIDS education posters by the Population and Community Development Association (PDA) in Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A warning that AIDS can be stopped by avoiding casual sex, using condoms, not taking drugs, or used syringes; with the numero verte helpline number; an advertisement by the Ministere della Sanità Commisione nazionale per la lotta contro l'AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Three numbered diagrams on how to sterilise needles with the message to protect yourself and others against HIV; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Folkehelsa Statens Institutt for Folkehelse (Norwegian Institute of Public Health). Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Japanese. Colour lithograph.
  • An AIDS infected woman with her hand on her head explaining how sharing needles meant she could not have a baby; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the NACO in collaboration with WHO. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Intravenous injection in the neck of a horse
  • A tick list of ways you can and can't get the AIDS virus from handshakes to sharing drug needles with details of the AIDS Hotline number in Oahu in Japanese. Colour lithograph.

Works from the collections

91 works

    • Books
    • Online

    Preliminary report on the treatment of advanced pulmonary tuberculosis by intravenous injections of iodoform / by Thos. W. Dewar.

    Dewar, Thomas W. | Date: [1903]
    • Books

    Needle sharing among intravenous drug abusers: national and international perspectives / Editors, Robert J. Battjes, Roy W. Pickens.

    | Date: 1988
    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Intravenous injection in the neck of a horse

    Royal Veterinary College
    • Ephemera

    AIDS ephemera : Awareness & education. Box 3.

    • Books

    The treatment of varicose veins of the lower extremities by injections / T. Henry Treves-Barber.

    Treves-Barber, T. Henry. | Date: 1929
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Related topics

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention
Hotlines (Counseling)
Sexuality
Oahu
Mosquito Vectors
Safe Sex
Condoms
Needle sharing
Syringes

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