Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account
Subject

HIV-positive women

Images

  • An information sheet about an anti-AIDS poster exhibition designed and produced by Artis as part of a collaboration with the Unesco/WHO AIDS prevention education programme; with explanation about the contamination risks of HIV infected women to their children through pregnancy and childbirth. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • A group of women and a child stand with their arms around each other wearing dresses representing unity and strength; advertising a support group for HIV positive women by the AIDS Action Council of the ACT, Australia. Colour lithograph.
  • Iris, an HIV positive woman with two men and the message in Italian: "Iris is HIV positive - we stand by her"; one of a series of posters from a Solidarity 'Stop AIDS' campaign by Aiuto AIDS Svizzero in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A pregnant woman infected with HIV wearing a figure hugging vest representing an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS Secretariat and AIDS Hotline. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • A woman who is HIV-positive faces the prospect of living with the condition. Colour lithograph after R. Westerwelle, 1994.
All images (33)

Catalogue

    • Pictures
    • Online

    An HIV positive woman being comforted by her husband and children; advertisement by the World Health Organization for living positively with HIV. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 669311i
    • Books

    A positive woman's survival kit.

    | Date: [1999]
    • Pictures

    Bodies of a naked man and woman, with the woman in front; representing the right of HIV positive people to have sex. Colour lithograph by Lauterbach/Boek for Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V., ca. 1997.

    | Date: [1997?] | Reference: 728557i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    The attractive face of a woman who does not have AIDS yet carries the HIV virus which can spread the disease; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Ministerio de Salud Pública, Uruguay. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 679149i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A woman who is HIV positive asserts her right to decide whether to have a baby. Colour lithograph after R. Westerwelle, 1994.

    Westerwelle, Ruth, 1951- | Date: Februar 1994 | Reference: 667489i
All works (40)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    closed
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence