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1 June 2007
The Ethiopia Campaign (PDF)
Jimmy Carter's 82 years had diminished neither his trademark smile, which could still disarm skeptics at 20 paces, nor his enthusiasm for the long chance, which had propelled this obscure peanut farmer to national prominence in the first place. That quixotic spirit took him this past February to an impoverished corner of Ethiopia, where he would announce his most audacious crusade yet: to eliminate malaria, an elusive and ever-changing killer, from this ancient African nation of 75 million people.

31 Mar 2006
New York Times Feature on Trachoma: Preventable Disease Blinds Poor in Third World
"Preventable Disease Blinds Poor in Third World" by Celia W. Dugger is the third in The New York Times "On the Brink" series of articles about five diseases — polio, Guinea worm, blinding trachoma, measles and lymphatic filariasis — that are extinct in the developed world but stubbornly persistent in some poor nations. As the diseases hover on the brink of eradication, doctors and scientists face daunting obstacles as they struggle to finish the job.

16 Sep 2005
Houston Chronicle Feature: Visions of Health: Carters Work to End Scourge in Ethiopia
Copyright 2005, Houston Chronicle, Posted with permission.

5 Mar 2005
Latrine Program a Hit; Project Deals With Health, Gender
Feature article by Mark Bixler, Cox News Service.

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