Breast Awareness in Pictures

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A BREAST CANCER AWARENESS JOURNEY

The Be Pink Movement

Every year, about 30,000 women in Nigeria die of breast cancer. Knowledge surrounding the disease is limited. So, in 2018, Dr. Lilian Ebuoma launched Lilly Women's Health in Lagos.

A spa-like breast care centre was set up and the state-of-the-art

Lilly Women's Health mobile mammography clinic was launched marking a significant leap in patient care and equitable access to breast care across Nigeria. In the years that followed, Lilly Women's Health held many breast cancer awareness campaigns and programs inspiring a movement around its mission to help create a breast cancer-free nation for all women in Nigeria.

The following images are some mementos of the Be Pink events we've held across Nigeria since we started in 2018.

WOMEN CELEBRATING THE POWER OF KNOWLEDGE

Busy as a bee!

The tireless effort of Team Lilly Women's Health in educating women about the importance of preventive examinations and in carrying out screening programs.

High risk populations, the poor and those in rural areas, are most in need but least likely to have access to good breast care.

Lilly Women's Health is here to change that.

Our mobile mammography services make it possible to reach as many women as possible who are not receiving mammograms on a regular basis. But also, our mobile clinic takes us to places across Nigeria to ensure that women are educated about breast cancer, its detection, its treatment, and the need to prevent it at all cost.

Lilly Women's Health advocates health literacy skills for all women. It's important to have these skills for easy access to breast care, for breast cancer prevention, and to effectively manage the disease (in case they have it), communicate their needs, understand their choices and make informed decisions. Health literacy skills allow women to take control of their own well-being by making smart and healthy choices and equipping them with information to advocate for themselves when it comes to their health.

Since 2018, Lilly Women's Health have disseminated (in-person) breast health and breast cancer information to around 5,000 women across Nigeria.

Knowledge is power!

Every woman matters!

Every woman’s health and well-being should never be taken for granted. A woman plays multiple roles in her life. She needs to be physically and mentally healthy. That can be achieved if she has enough awareness about her health and she's being proactive about it.

The mission continues...

Never be idle when there is pain and suffering. Each and everyone of us is "who we ' ve been waiting for."

— Dr. Lilian O. Ebuoma

LILLY WOMEN'S HEALTH COMES TO YOU!

Got Checked!

One of the best memories of the last years was not only getting thousands of women checked for breast cancer but most of all helping them become breast aware and be proactive when it comes to their health.

We've helped thousands of women become breast aware since we started and although there are still tens and tens of thousands more that we have yet to reach we're proud to have made these women smile and feel confident about their health.

Where there' s women, there's Lilly Women's Health. :)

The following are snapshots of the Breast Awareness Program we conducted at the Carol School during one of their Parents-Teachers Association (PTA) meetings.

The couple who are healthy together, stays together.

Breast Aware Moms

For every 100 deaths due to breast cancer in women younger than 50 years, there were 210 kids who became motherless.

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T DOESN'T NEED TO BE LIKE THIS.

Through Lilly Women's Health breast awareness programs like the Be Pink events, we help prevent maternal deaths and maternal orphans by empowering women to take control of their breast health.

Local Government and Maternal Child Centre

Making sure that both moms and children are safe through health literacy and education.

We're empowering women to take control of their health by educating them about their body and providing important breast cancer resources.

Everyone has a part to play!

No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.

NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS. WITH DR. FEMI

Though there is a high incidence of breast cancer in Nigeria, studies have shown that the majority of Nigerian women, both in rural and urban areas possess little or no knowledge about risk factors and symptoms of the disease. In cases where women are aware of these, there is hesitation in seeking healthcare which results in untimely death. Religious, economic and socio-cultural factors have shown to play a part in women’s attitude towards the disease. There is also a lack of knowledge on breast selfexaminations (BSE) and who should conduct them.

HealthThink.Org

and so the life-saving breast awareness campaigns of Lilly Women's Health continues.

LILLY WOMEN'S HEALTH BY THE ATLANTIC

Information is a source of learning but ...

unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

William Pollard

Encouraging women to become more aware of their bodies generally and to get to know their own breasts.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

William Ralph Inge

All life matters!

“A woman diagnosed with breast cancer has a greater than 70% chance of dying in Nigeria. In the United States, it’s less than 10%!”

Hearing this statement made us cringe and we asked: “Why?”

Late presentation of disease, poor awareness, poor healthcare infrastructure etc. The list of excuses goes on and on and on.

All life matters and it shouldn’t matter where you live. Things will never change if someone does not stand up to challenge the status quo. And Lilly Women’s Health is here to do exactly that – challenge the status quo.

Our team is composed of certified health and medical experts but most of all they’re expert nurturers and carers too. This includes everyone – from the receptionists to the technologists, up to the founder. The team is trained to love our patients beyond and above expectations.

Breast care for everyone!

Story-sharing, free resources, and spreading awareness.

You'd think after years of spreading breast awareness, serving thousands of women, we'd lie low. But there are always new communities to reach out and serve. Whether it's having as many Nigerian women as possible become breast aware or helping them in being proactive when it comes to their health, or giving them free mammograms, we at Lilly Women's Health never get tired and we continue to serve.

The government must step in a big way to tackle breast cancer.

Lilly Women's Health is always here to remind our public leaders to get involved. We brainstorm with them, we recommend solutions, we follow through, and we help in the implementation (should they decide to implement solutions).

It takes a village to fight breast cancer.

The government is of course the central authority of the village and must take active part in this fight and in saving women's lives from this disease.

WOMEN'S FITNESS FAIR

WITH FIRST LADY OF ONDO STATE - BETTY AKEREDOU AND DR. MAYMUNAH KADIRI.

However, a number of sociocultural issues restrict women from receiving the optimum care for their breast health and general well-being.

Women often end up taking care of others. Their personal health, meanwhile, is frequently taken for granted. It is high time to change the way we think about women's health, and the government needs to step up.

Breast health must find equal attention and reflection in our society and policies.

A fruitful meeting of hearts and minds!

The First Lady of Lagos State - Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu with the Founder of Lilly

Women's Health, our very own Dr. Lilian O. Ebuoma.

Fighting Breast Cancer

Together!

Leaders in championing change and innovation in the fight against breast cancer.

Fighting Breast Cancer as Only Business Leaders Can!

Lilly Women's Health is pushing our business leaders to create a culture of health and well-being by supporting our breast awareness programs and by being our allies in the fight against breast cancer.

Again, it takes a village to defeat breast cancer and the business sectors in Nigeria should be one with us in leading the battle and in joining us to victory!

Collaborating

Gearing up with a smile for the fight against breast cancer!

Cancer affects all parts of our society. We must all contribute to the solution especially if you have the means and more particularly if as a business you have the social and moral responsibility to do your part in keeping your community healthy and alive.

The fight against breast cancer is everyone's concern.

Spreading breast awareness with a happy heart!

It's true, if you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. At Lilly Women's Health, we certainly love what we do!

THRIVE WOMEN CONFERENCE:

Joining in empowering female entrepreneurs, stay at home mums looking for opportunities to better themselves and network.

Team Lilly Women's Health

Ready to spread breast awareness with smiling faces and joyful hearts!

The smile of tireless service ...

Moms Are Key to Breast Awareness

Encouraging mothers to talk to their daughters about breast health as well as puberty could be the key to improving early detection of breast cancer to improve health outcomes.

McGrath Foundation

At Lilly Women's Health, we build connections with mothers to not only educate them about breast cancer and protect themselves from the disease but also to equip them with knowledge they can share with their daughters, their own mothers, their relatives, and friends, and to help them save a life - their own and that of someone else.

PARTNERING WITH LAGOS MUMS OUTREACH PROGRAM

After years of spreading breast awareness, we totally understand that this is a constant endeavor. It never ceases and it requires real work day after day, year after year. But Lilly Women's Health will be here for each Nigerian woman, to inform, educate, inspire and to help save their life against breast cancer .

Dr. Ebuoma in action!

“Health Communication” and making breast care information interpretable, persuasive, actionable, and valuable!

She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. Prov: 31:25

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. Aristotle

Be Breast Aware!

We've only just begun...

At Lilly Women's Health, we believe that no woman should die from breast cancer due to lack of information and awareness, delayed detection, insufficient, second-class treatment procedure and the lack of personalized medical support system. All lives matter and it shouldn’t matter where you live.

We'll continue to do good and help save women's lives from breast cancer.

We've done so much, we've already saved hundreds of lives, BUT WE AREN'T DONE YET the work has only just begun!