A woman with her head leaning on her hand: preventing breast cancer in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Barbara Minishi for Kenya Breast Health Programme, ca. 2000.

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[2000?]
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756123i
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A woman with her head leaning on her hand: preventing breast cancer in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Barbara Minishi for Kenya Breast Health Programme, ca. 2000. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Bears 4 images: the child has difficulty breathing, fails to breastfeed, lies sleeping on a bed, and is cooled by his mother with a flannel

Publication/Creation

Nairobi (Mapera Court, Langata Raod, P.O. Box 9893, 00100) : Kenya Breast Health Programme, [2000?]

Physical description

1 print : lithograph, printed in colours ; sheet 42.1 x 59.1 cm

Lettering

She could be a wife ... a friend ... a mother ... a sister or a daughter ... but first she is a woman! And she needs you as much as you need her. Breast cancer, if detected early, is curable. Photography by Barbara Minishi. Bears logo: Kenya Breast Health Programme (incl web address: www.kenyabreast.org.) Bears logo: Dabur (c/o: Universal Corporation Ltd. ...)

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Barbara Minishi (photograph) Kenya Breast Health Programme Dabur ca. 2000 22/08/2011 Kenya UkLW Transcription from the item

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Wellcome Collection 756123i

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