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  • A syringe forming the 'i' of the word 'AIDS'; a warning about the dangers of spreading AIDS through sharing needles and syringes. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's (?).
  • Una nueva era en la antibioticoterapia, Sigmamicina ... : Terramicina intramuscular en la práctica clínica / Laboratorios Pfizer, S.A.
  • A warning about AIDS and drugs; French version of a series of 'Stop SIDA' [STOP AIDS] campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS spreads; an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • An enlarged view of the HIV virus with a list of ten points about how the virus is transmitted. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A bite mark in a piece of melon representing a message to enjoy the richness of life as part of a fact sheet on how you can and cannot get AIDS; an advertisement by INSA International Services Assocation in India. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • The head of a woman heroin user against a backdrop of doodles; representing heroin as not transmitting the cause of AIDS; an advertisement for safe sex and use of drugs by Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V. Colour lithograph by Peder Iblher.
  • A doctor with a garland of pill boxes, bottles and a clyster pipe; a publican with pipes, different bottles and a punch bowl. Etching after T. Rowlandson.
  • A syringe, the silhouette of a man injecting himself, a couple talking and a man receiving a blood transfusion in a bed; a warning about the risks of contracting AIDS through drug abuse and contaminated blood. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A group of fashionable physicians gathered around a sick patient listen to one of their number proclaiming the virtue of leeches. Coloured lithograph after E.J. Pigal.
  • A diseased woman turning into a mermaid, a physician with a lancet riding on a cow and an apothecary wielding a syringe form a grotesque procession, scaring children as they go; referring to the distrust of the French public in the face of vaccination. Coloured etching.
  • A syringe attached to a heart poised to inject into an arm; an advertisement for donating blood to save life. Colour lithograph by the National AIDS Organisation (NACO), September 1996.
  • Three women, one of them wielding a syringe approach three apprehensive men. Pen drawing.
  • An illustrated message about how AIDS spreads; an advertisement for the National AIDS Control Organisation, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Goverment of India. Colour lithograph by March 1993.
  • A large and evil-looking army physician eagerly inoculates a fearful young man. Pen and ink drawing by F. May, ca. 1918.
  • A woman's eye looking at the needle of a syringe pointing up towards a man's eye with the message in French: "Stop AIDS. Don't start!"; an anti-drugs advertisement from a campaign of 'STOP AIDS posters by the l'AIDE Suisse contre le SIDA in collaboration with the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • A warning about AIDS and drugs; Italian version of a series of 'Stop AIDS' campaign posters by the Federal Office of Public Health. Colour lithograph.
  • Holī festival. Watercolour by a Lucknow painter, 18--.
  • A woman holding a needle (a "sharp") and syringe, with diagrams for safe disposal of used needles; representing services of Mainliners for people at risk of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Photo Co-op, Glover/Hughes and Big Active Ltd. for Mainliners, 1990/1995.
  • A safe sex advertisement promoting the use of condoms and sterile needles to avoid the spread of AIDS; one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.
  • A la profesión médica y farmaceútica : conozca la familia "B-D Ace" / Mapad, S.A.
  • A long queue (line) of angry patients agitating outside the house of a doctor (surgeon-apothecary); he squirts a syringe at them from an upstairs room. Watercolour, ca. 1800.
  • Naked men in a shower with a message about sweating, syringes and safe sex. Lithograph for Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • A couple embrace, an arm being injected and a pregnant woman with a cross-section of her foetus within a decorative border; an advertisement for St Stephen's Community House for people affected by AIDS. Colour lithograph by A. Caverhill.
  • Oradexon inyectable ... : Embarazo? ... Metrogen Fuerte / Organon.
  • The figure of death in a red cloak bearing the words 'AIDS' and 'HIV' with his scythe and a syringe bearing the word 'heroin' piercing the black silhouette of a reclining figure; a drug safety and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Committee on AIDS Hanoi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A syringe and a condom with a warning to always use a new syringe when shooting up since the damage caused by drugs is even more serious since the onset of AIDS; advertisement for the Drogues Info Service and SIDA Info Service by the Ministère de la Santé Publique et de l'Assurance Maladie. Colour lithograph.
  • A la profesión médica y farmaceútica : conozca la familia "B-D Ace" / Mapad, S.A.
  • A trail of blood spots with a syringe representing a warning about how to deal with spillages of blood infected with HIV by the National AIDS Programme of Trinidad and Tobago. Colour lithograph by Illya Furlonge-Walker, ca. 1995.
  • A syringe pointing upwards representing the letter 'i' of the word AIDS; a warning to use sterilized syringes to prevent AIDS by the Central Health Education Bureau in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.