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How AIDS can and cannot be transmitted; an advertisement by AIDS-Hilfe Salzburg. Colour lithograph.

Four illustrations showing the dangers of donating contaminated blood and transmitting AIDS through injecting, unsafe sex and pregnancy; a further 4 illustrations show ways in which AIDS is not transmitted from mosquito bites to sharing food; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Project of the Goverment of Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. Colour lithograph, 1997?.

Nine green and red diagrams with Portuguese lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.

Six different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.

The martyrdom of Marcus, Bishop of Arethusa. Etching after T. Stothard.

A penis rising in the form of a yellow serpent with a pronged tongue daubed on a rough red wall bearing the graffiti "AIDS, the killing bit of love"; representing the danger of sexual transmission of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Anthon Beeke, 1993.

Nine green and red diagrams with Spanish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.

Seventeen different pieces of sealed, precious medicinal earth known as 'terra sigillata'. Pen drawing.

Nine green and red diagrams with English lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.

A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.

Nine green and red diagrams with Albanian lettering on how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.

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A star falls into the pit of hell as locusts torture those unelected to heaven. Woodcut, c. 16th century.

Nine green and red diagrams with Spanish lettering showing how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.

The martyrdom of Marcus, Bishop of Arethusa. Etching after T. Stothard.

A penis rising in the form of a yellow serpent with a pronged tongue daubed on a rough red wall bearing the graffiti "AIDS, the killing bit of love"; representing the danger of sexual transmission of AIDS. Colour silk screen print after Anthon Beeke, 1993.

Nine green and red diagrams with Albanian lettering on how AIDS is not transmitted including top right, an insect [bite] to bottom right a heart [for faithfulness in marriage]; one of a series of six posters from the Stop AIDS campaign. Colour lithograph.