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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter addresses Ghanaian children outside Savelugu Hospital, asking “Who here has had Guinea worm disease?” Amid the scorching heat of peak dry season, President Carter visited the parched community of Savelugu to meet with dozens of Guinea worm disease victims in an effort to bring global attention to Ghana’s growing Guinea worm epidemic caused by inadequate water supply in the country.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter comforts six-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital on Feb. 8, 2007, as Adams Bawa, a Carter Center technical assistant, dresses her extremely painful Guinea worm wound.
To end the social and economic consequences associated with this horrific disease, The Carter Center spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, The Carter Center and its partners, in collaboration with thousands of dedicated community health workers, continue to intensify efforts to fight the last fraction of 1 percent of Guinea worm disease. Thanks to this work, Guinea worm is poised to be the next disease eradicated and will be the first to be overcome without a vaccine or medicine.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
At Savelugu Hospital in Northern Region Ghana, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, watch as a Guinea worm health worker dresses a child’s extremely painful Guinea worm wound.
To end the social and economic consequences associated with this horrific disease, The Carter Center spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, The Carter Center and its partners, in collaboration with thousands of dedicated community health workers, continue to intensify efforts to fight the last fraction of 1 percent of Guinea worm disease. Thanks to this work, Guinea worm is poised to be the next disease eradicated and will be the first to be overcome without a vaccine or medicine.
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Date: Feb. 13, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
President and Mrs. Carter help measure people’s heights to determine how many Mectizan® treatments should be received to prevent the parasitic disease river blindness. President Carter provides a single annual treatment of the drug to a young girl after she is measured.
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Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
With representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GlaxoSmithKline-Carter Center partners in providing treatment and health education in Nigeria to prevent the disease lymphatic filariasis-President Carter learns about the suffering of two patients with swollen legs and feet, symptomatic of lymphatic filariasis infection.
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Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter measure a little girl’s height to gauge the accurate medication needed to prevent schistosomiasis, a silent and destructive parasitic infection that leads to poor growth and impaired learning in children.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Fusheni Nazeed, once a driver for the Carter Center health programs, is the now the local trachoma health worker in this area. Nazeed demonstrated for the Carters how trachoma can be prevented when simple environmental strategies and health education become part of people’s daily lives in the trachoma-endemic village of Tingoli. The use of household pit latrines when paired with regular hand and face washing can significantly reduce the blinding bacterial eye infection, creating a healthier and stronger community.
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Date: Sept. 15, 2005
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Carter Center Board of Trustees Chair John Moores (center), and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter observe a young Ethiopian girl while she washes her face to prevent the bacterial eye disease trachoma. In September 2005, a Carter Center delegation toured Mosebo, an Ethiopian village where the Center works to eradicate blinding trachoma.
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Date: Feb. 13, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
President and Mrs. Carter give a long-lasting insecticidal bed net, which prevents malaria, to Mrs. Hlmenlike, who hosted the Carters in her home during their tour of the Center’s health work in the remote village of Afeta in southwest Ethiopia.
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