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Sierra Leone

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Images from the collections

Images about Sierra Leone

9 images from works
  • Precautions to prevent the spread of AIDS with illustrations; an advertisement by the National AIDS Programme, Ministry of Health, Sierra Leone. Lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Annual report on the Medical Department / Sierra Leone.
  • An account of the native Africans in the neighbourhood of Sierra Leone : to which is added an account of the present state of medicine among them / by Thomas Winterbottom.
  • Two women stroke the face of a man bearing the words 'Play boy' on his t-shirt with 2 other couples sitting on benches looking on from either side; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the International Planned Parenthood Federation and Planned Parenthood Association of Sierra Leone. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Sierra Leone: an insane asylum, a small wooden building with a porch. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Sierra Leone: wooden cesspool huts, with a uniformed man and a man holding a bucket shown standing in the foreground. Photograph, 1910/1920.
  • Annual report on the Medical Department / Sierra Leone.
  • Sierra Leone: a tattooed man of the Kissi people collecting money. Photograph, 19--.
  • A pregnant schoolgirl from Sierra Leone. Colour lithograph by Sierra Leone Home Economics Association Youth to Youth Project, ca. 2000.

Works from the collections

130 works

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    Circumcision of women : a strategy for eradication / Olayinka Koso-Thomas.

    Koso-Thomas, Olayinka | Date: [1987]
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    Annual report of the Medical and Sanitary Department / Sierra Leone.

    Sierra Leone. Medical and Sanitary Department. | Date: [1929]
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    Annual report on the medical services / Sierra Leone.

    Sierra Leone. Medical Department. | Date: [1954]
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    The Ebola pandemic in Sierra Leone : representations, actors, interventions and the path to recovery / John Idriss Lahai.

    Lahai, John Idriss | Date: 2017
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    Annual report on Sierra Leone / Colonial Office.

    Great Britain. Colonial Office. | Date: [1954]
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Related topics

Public Health Administration
Health Services Administration
Sanitation
History, 20th Century
Communicable Diseases
Physicians
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola
Trypanosomiasis, African
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola

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