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  • Birth control clinic in caravan, with nurse.
  • Birth control clinic in caravan, est. by Marie Stopes.
  • Birth control has been around for 4,000 years : isn't it time you knew all about it? ... / Family Planning Association.
  • A woman with her hand on her head: Norplant birth control implant in Uganda. Colour lithograph by DISH, ca. 2001.
  • A baby crawling to the left representing a warning about good sexual health to prevent birth defects, STD's and AIDS; a warning to seek treatment for STD's by the National AIDS Control Project in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • A baby crawling to the left representing a warning about good sexual health to prevent birth defects, STDs and AIDS (Hindi version); a warning to seek treatment for STD's by the National AIDS Control Project in New Delhi. Colour lithograph, 1995.
  • Solanum laciniatum Aiton Solanaceae. Kangaroo Apple. Evergreen shrub. Distribution: New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. It contains steroidal saponins that can be converted into steroids, including progesterone, oestrogens, cortisone, prednisolone etc. In 1943, Professor Russell Marker discovered a method of obtaining an unsaturated steroidal saponine, diosogenin, from Mexican yam (Dioscorea mexicana), which can easily and cheaply be converted into steroids, such as prednisone and progesterone, reducing the price of steroid production to a fraction (0.5%) of its former cost. For 20 years drug companies showed little interest, and it was only as a result of Professor Marker forming his own company, and the concerted efforts of several gynaecologists, physiologists and birth-control advocates, that the contraceptive pill was ‘born’ in 1960. Photographed in the Medicinal Garden of the Royal College of Physicians, London.
  • MARIE CHARLOTTE CARMICHAEL STOPES
  • A couple attending a family planning clinic in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph by the Family Guidance Association of Ethiopia, 1998.
  • A health advisor gives contraception to a couple with their baby: family planning clinics in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Kenya, 1998.
  • A pregnant mother in tears living in poverty with her many children: importance of family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A couple with their heads together and a couple in silhouette representing Kamal contraceptive foaming tablets in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Ghana Social Marketing Foundation, ca. 2000.
  • A pregnant man with a message about being careful: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Family Planning Association of Kenya, ca. 2000.
  • International conference on population development in Benin. Lithograph by L'Association Béninoise pour la Promotion de la Famille, 1994.
  • A family of five stand outside their house: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Family Planning Association of Kenya, ca. 2000.
  • International conference on population development in Benin. Lithograph by L'Association Béninoise pour la Promotion de la Famille, 1994.
  • A man hands a woman some pills: family planning in Ghana. Colour lithograph by Apple Pie Publicity for Ministry of Health, Ghana, ca. 2000.
  • A large deprived unplanned family compared with a small, prosperous family: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A contented family of four representing the Family planning Project in Egypt. Colour lithograph by the MInistry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • Family planning in Egypt. Colour lithograph by the MOH Family Planning Project, 1990.
  • A family of three talk to a family planning adviser in Ghana. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A man surrounded by numerous pregnant women and children: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by N. Kimotho for The National Council for Population and Development, 1984.
  • A contented family of four representing the Family planning Project in Egypt. Colour lithograph by the MInistry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A family of three talk to a family planning adviser in Ghana. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A woman reads a family planning method brochure as she sits with her husband and children outside their home: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • International conference on population development in Benin. Lithograph by L'Association Béninoise pour la Promotion de la Famille, 1994.
  • A large poor family compared with a contented family of four representing the Family planning Project in Egypt. Colour lithograph by the MInistry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A family of three talk to a family planning adviser in Ghana. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A man carrying his large family on his back in their bare thatched house: family planning in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Sukoro for The National Council for Population and Development, ca. 2000.
  • Family planning methods in Ghana. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health Ghana, ca. 2000.