Rosalynn Carter

Place: Tingoli, Ghana
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center/L. Gubb

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter wear traditional Ghanaian attire, a gift from the chief of Tingoli village in northern Ghana on Feb. 8, 2007, during a Carter Center visit to see the country's progress eradicating Guinea worm disease and controlling trachoma, a devastating eye disease. Since then, with Carter Center support, Ghana has halted transmission of Guinea worm disease and has eliminated blinding trachoma as a public health problem.

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