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Images about Nairobi

31 images from works
  • Two young Africans read from a white sheet of paper representing an advertisement for 'Rap it out', a Youth v AIDS project organised by HND Students of Southampton Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. Colour lithograph by Nick Hunt, ca. 1990's.
  • A man raises his arms before a woman selling him food over a shop counter: promoting smaller families through family planning at Marie Stopes clinics in Kenya. Lithograph by Population Media, ca. 2000.
  • Two girls with their arms round each other in front of playing children: campaign against female circumcision in Kenya. Colour lithograph after E.K. Migwi for the Family Planning Association of Kenya, 1997.
  • Eye conditions and treatments: preventing blindness in Kenya through primary health care. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Calendar for 2007 advertising the Kenya immunization programme. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2007.
  • The life cycle of the mosquito that causes malaria fever. Colour lithograph by the Division of Health Education, ca, 2000.
  • Buy a brick campaign to build new health training centres for AMREF in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.
  • Two children with disabilities and another receiving a vaccine: polio innoculation in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Division of Health Education, ca. 2000.
  • A man wearing a hat bearing the words 'Niko Sober Lakini' over his eyes: National campaign against drug abuse in Kenya. Colour lithograph by NACADA, ca. 2000.
  • Two hands wrap around each other to form the shape of the AIDS red ribbon against a grainy backdrop of the world within a circle inscribed with the slogan 'Shared rights. Shared responsibility'; an advertisement by the Kenya National AIDS/STD Control Programme, part of the Kenya Ministry of Health. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
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    The life cycle of the mosquito that causes malaria fever. Colour lithograph by the Division of Health Education, ca, 2000.

    | Date: [2000?] | Reference: 755172i
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    Nairobi: firemen carrying a man down a ladder, demonstrating their skills and equipment. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1960 and 1969?] | Reference: 46594i
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    A smiling mother with her child: family planning at Marie Stopes clinics in Kenya. Lithograph by the Population Media, ca. 2000.

    | Date: [2000?] | Reference: 757069i
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    Two young Africans read from a white sheet of paper representing an advertisement for 'Rap it out', a Youth v AIDS project organised by HND Students of Southampton Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. Colour lithograph by Nick Hunt, ca. 1990's.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 678656i
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    An illustrated guide to family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the IPPF Africa Regional Office, ca. 2000.

    | Date: [2000?] | Reference: 757068i
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Related topics

Sanitation
Kenya
Health Services Administration
Public Health Administration
Africa
Fire fighters
Lifesaving at fires
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention
Family Planning Services

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