Esther Franks
The first female ophthalmologist in South Africa.
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Lesley Lawson
South African photographer and activist
Dr Maura Lynch
Irish missionary nun and surgeon active in Angola and Uganda
Cordelia O’Neill
Cleveland, Ohio elementary school principal
Dr Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
As South Africa’s Minister of Health from 1999 to 2008, her refusal to support the use of antiretroviral medicines to treat HIV led to the deaths of over 300,000 infected South Africans.
Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
South African physician, activist and writer
Sibongile Susan Mkhabela
South African political and public health activist
Florinda Ogilvie
Florinda Ogilvie was a medical social worker and a Fellow of the Senate of the University of Sydney from 1943-1949. The University holds an archival collection of her personal records dating from 1937 to 1968.
Hortensia Villanueva
Hortensia Villanueva formed a mothers’ club in December 1994. The wife of a union leader in Eastern Washington, Villanueva used space at the Farm Workers’ Clinic to organize the mothers of children who came down with contagious virus infections.
Lee Minto
Lee Minto (b. 1927), executive director of Planned Parenthood of Seattle-King County from 1967 until her retirement in 1993, played a key role in the campaign for Referendum 20, which legalized abortion in Washington state in 1970.