Carter Center Feature Articles Archive: 2006

Dec. 14, 2006
Miss Ghana Vows to Fight Guinea Worm Disease in Her Home Country
Feature on 2005 Miss Ghana and her personal quest to eradicate Guinea worm disease.

Oct. 27, 2006
Trachoma Study in Sudan Shows SAFE Strategy Works
Children in the United States may not give grape-flavored cough syrup another thought, but in Eastern Equatoria, Sudan, children look forward to their yearly dose of an antibiotic that tastes like bananas. The medicine, azithromycin, is one part of a strategy designed to prevent blinding trachoma, a bacterial eye disease and leading cause of preventable blindness in the world.

Oct. 1, 2006
Laughter Is the Best Medicine: Group's Humor Aids in Guinea Worm Education
Two actors take the stage and make wild cartoonish gestures and snappy remarks. This is not the latest sitcom in Hollywood or a new Broadway production but a drama about Guinea worm disease in rural Ghana.

Sept. 27, 2006
Removing the Scar of Guinea Worm Disease: One Village at a Time
The muddy pond is as brown as the hillsides surrounding it. It is the peak of dry season in Ghana and Chief Tahanaa looks over the water he has been drinking since he was a child.

Sept. 25, 2006
Carter Center Calls for Better Mental Health Care for All Georgians
Five-foot-six-inches tall, Angela Ford's weight has varied from 90 pounds to her current 216.

Sept. 1, 2006
Profile: Marcel Wetsh'okonda, Congolese Human Rights Defender
Marcel Wetsh'okonda fights for human rights laws to be passed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country where 1,000 people die each day from disease, hunger, and violence. It is no easy task.

Aug. 31, 2006
Election Renews Hope for Family in War-Torn Democratic Republic of the Congo
The afternoon sun catches Yayu Zonveni's face near the door of her otherwise shadowy home in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

May 1, 2006
Education Key to Reducing Trachoma Across Africa
"My mother believed you got trachoma from crying," said Neter Nadew, a 36-year-old Ethiopian mother of four who suffers as her mother did from trachoma, a bacterial eye disease that can lead to blindness. Nadew's mother was forced to pluck out her eyelashes to prevent the onset of blindness in the later stages of the disease.

May 1, 2006
Dr. Emmanuel Miri: 'Dr. Water' Pours New Life into Rural Nigerian Communities with Carter Center Health Programs
His name means "water" and "life" in the Southeastern region of his native Nigeria, and perhaps no name could be more appropriate for Dr. Emmanuel Miri, resident technical adviser for the Carter Center's health programs in Nigeria.

Jan. 19, 2006
Staffer Reflects on OEPA Successes, River Blindness Partnerships in Mexico
A first-hand account by Becky Brookshire, associate director of development, Carter Center Health Programs.

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