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  • 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 English. Colour lithograph.
  • The needle of a syringe pointing to a swirling circle of the repeated words in Galician 'Cambiamos chutas usadas por chutas nouas' with the end of a syringe disappearing to the right; a message to drug users to exchange used syringes for new syringes to prevent AIDS; an advertisement by the Comité Cidadán Galego Anti-SIDA. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • AIDS : don't die of ignorance : government information 1987 / issued by the Department of Health and Social Security.
  • A syringe with a hooked needle suggesting drugs get you hooked; organised by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • 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 Ilocano. Colour lithograph.
  • AIDS : don't die of ignorance : government information 1987 / issued by the Department of Health and Social Security.
  • A cross incorporating a montage of pink heart muscles, pink triangles, crossed red and green squares, the AIDS red ribbon on a stamp, flowers, a hand and a version of the American flag; on a background coloured in green crayon incorporating a montage of photographs including Christ's head of thorns and a hand injecting a syringe into an arm; on a further black background bearing the brown lettering: 'el colonialismo' [colonialism]; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Juan Sánchez, ca. 1995.
  • An iced cake bearing the number '25th' is lit with a candle with a party hat and a balloon tied to a chair with the words 'AIDS is no party'; a warning to practice safe sex and use condoms with information on the AIDS Hotline in Hawaii. Colour lithograph.
  • A condom incorporated within the words "True Love"; advertisement by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • A couple make love inside the head of a man with cans, bottles and cartons on the left and a syringe and drug paraphernalia on the right; a reminder about the dangers of not using condoms by the AIDS Action Council, ACT. Colour lithograph by KMcC, 1991.
  • A man in a pink t-shirt injects a needle into the arm of another man who squints in pain with five illustrated steps for the sterilisation and safe disposal of needles; advertisment by the ACON, The AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph by Jamie Dunbar.
  • Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS issued by the State AIDS Cell of the Goverment of Tamil Nadu and sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
  • Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
  • Pills, medication, drugs, a pestle and mortar and a syringe representing a warning about the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and AIDS sponsored by Unicef. Colour lithograph by Adprint, ca. 1997.
  • A man and woman between curtains in which a penis is enveloped at the top with a set of three further images of a woman's face, a person injecting and a half skeletal face of a woman within frames composed of bones; the words 'Women' and 'AIDS' emblazoned across the poster in pink lettering; a winning poster for World AIDS Day by Manuel Pagaragan, Jr. of Ferrington High School, Oahu, Hawaii. Colour lithograph.
  • A woman welcoming a female patient at a health clinic in India; with further smaller illustrations relating to the ways in which AIDS can be transmitted including a couple having unprotected sex, blood transfusions, pregnancy and injecting drugs; an AIDS prevention advertisement by NGO-AIDS Cell, Centre for Community Medicine, AIIMS. Colour lithograph by Unesco/Aidthi Workshop, March 1995.
  • A young woman aware of the risk of contracting AIDS through intravenous use of heroin or cocaine. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • A mother kneels between her two sons with a message in spanish; representing a single mother who takes precautions with men to protect both herself and her children against AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.