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  • 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.
  • 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 woman with her hand in her hair and the other pulling up a sheet around her with a message about how she gave up a partner who took drugs for fear of contracting AIDS; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1993.
  • Ways in which you get HIV/AIDS including an embracing couple representing unprotected sex, an infected pregnant woman; a man receiving infected blood through transfusion and sharing contaminated needles; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the CII, the Confederation of Indian Industry programme on HIV/AIDS prevention and care. Colour lithograph by Amita P. Gupta, ca. 1997.
  • 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.
  • A glass with a warning that you can't catch AIDS from sharing a drink; advertisement for AIDS information lines by the California Medical Association. Colour lithograph.
  • How to clean needles and syringes; twelfth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Ear piercing, tattooing, acupuncture, razors, needles and toothbrushes representing a warning about the ways in which you can catch AIDS by the British Deaf Association. Colour lithograph.
  • The silhouette of a man with one hand at his chin as if thinking, a syringe poised to inject someone's arm and a couple making love; a warning about the dangers of contracting AIDS through sharing needles and unsafe sex. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Two figures lying down having a blood transfusion, a penis with and without a purple condom, a bearded man offering another a syringe and a prostitute accepting money from a customer who sits on a bike; cartoons advertising the dangers of infection and AIDS. Colour lithograph by the AIDS-Hilfe Krefeld e.V.
  • Information in English and Maori (on verso) on AIDS and how it is transmitted and prevented. Lithograph.
  • The risk of alcohol and drugs increasing HIV infection. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • Recto: two blurred figures with a warning about the risk of drug abuse and AIDS in Spanish; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph.
  • Two syringes with a public warning about the importance of needle sterilization to prevent the spread of diseases like AIDS; an advertisement by the Ministry of Health, Fiji and World Health Organization. Colour lithograph.
  • A stethoscope representing an advertisement for safe sex to reduce the risk of dying from AIDS by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • A man's hand gripping onto a leather strap used to inject drugs with the message 'remember clean needles'; an AIDS prevention advertisement for the AIDS-Tukikeskus, the AIDS support centre by the Finnish AIDS Council. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Three ways that AIDS is spread: by unsafe sexual activity; from an infected pregnant mother and by sharing needles; advertisement by the Health Education/HLM Unit of the Ministry of Health, Fiji. Colour lithograph.
  • An unlikely drug user, a middle-aged man in a shirt and tie aims a syringe at another man against a backdrop of a building bearing a flag representing a message about HIV by the AIDS Council of New South Wales. Colour lithograph.
  • List of ways HIV is transmitted; eighth of sixteen advertisement posters by the American Red Cross promoting education about AIDS. Colour lithograph, 1990.
  • A faithful unmarried couple, a man with his 3 faithful wives, a couple sitting in a STD clinic and a man receiving an injection with sterilised equipment; one of a series of educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A couple kissing within a syringe from which a drop of liquid containing a fetus is released with a warning about the risk of sex, drugs and AIDS; advertisement for the Louisiana AIDS hotline. Colour lithograph.
  • A man playing the guitar to his companion at his feet explaining how sharing needles meant they both contracted AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the NACO in collaboration with WHO. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A syringe with a bottle of liquid and a warning about the dangers of medicinal and recreational drugs and AIDS; an advertisement by the State of California AIDS Education Campaign. Lithograph.
  • Three labels bearing the words 'Blood', 'semen' and 'vaginal fluids' which can carry the HIV virus with an embracing couple, a needle and a pregant woman; one of a series of fact sheets about AIDS and HIV. 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.
  • A man with his hands over his face, a woman with her hands covering her ears and another man with his hands covering his mouth with a message about how HIV is communicated; a poster from the America responds to Aids advertising campaign. Lithograph, 1994.
  • A syringe plunges down the centre of 2 figures as a personified HIV virus wearing a bandana and holding the pronged fork of the devil bounces off an arrow pointing right; a warning about the dangers of sharing needles by the AIDS Unit Department of Health, Government of Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A newspaper cutting about AIDS-infected students at an Austrian High School who experimented with drugs using the same syringe; with the warning 'Der Erste Schuss kann AIDS-Tödlich sein' [The first shot can kill you of AIDS]; a warning issued by the Senator for Social Health and Youth and Family. Colour lithograph.
  • A black woman holding a mug representing a woman whose partner has AIDS through sharing needles; an advertisement about the risk of AIDS by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Lithograph, 1993.
  • A series of warning signs with illustrations demonstrating what not do to avoid AIDS including anal sex, circular arrows to indicate multiple sexual partners, oral sex, using shared needles; further illustrations in blue demonstrate how using your own razor, toothbrush and regularly showering illustrate how AIDS can be prevented; with a condom and a warning that any unprotected sexual intercourse increases the risk of AIDS; an advertisement by the Österreichische AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.