Children receiving medicine for trachoma [descriptive]

Item Overview

Title

Children receiving medicine for trachoma [descriptive]

Date Created

[between 1998 and 2010]

Date

1998/2010

Place of Origin

[Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)?]

Language

Amharic

Collection

Ethiopian Posters

Program

International Digital Ephemera Project

Notes

Description

Stylized eye with a rainbow arch in upper left corner of the image side of the poster. The same image is in the same place on the text side of the poster, in greyscale.
Double-sided poster. One side is chiefly images and background is shades of orange. The other side is all text and in greyscale.
Two children receive medicine for treating trachoma. A baby receives tetracycline hydrochloride ointment in their eye. A child is being given a pill of Zithromax (azithromycin) while the adult holds a glass of water to wash the pill down. Another photograph shows both the ointment in a tube, and a bottle of Zithromax, along with five red pills. A drawing in the lower left corner is of a woman taking a pill while holding a glass of water.
Image side of the poster: "18" in lower right corner. Text side of the poster "19" in lower right corner.
Part of a set of posters sponsored by the International Trachoma Initiative and Ethiopia's Ministry of Health.

Physical Description

Extent

1 poster : col.

Keywords

Genre

posters

Location

Ethiopia

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Ethiopians--Health and hygiene
Trachoma--Ethiopia--Prevention
Eye--Diseases--Ethiopia--Prevention