Even after being diagnosed with brain cancer, Carter remained focused: “I’d like the last Guinea worm to die before I do,” he told reporters in 2015.

In 1986, international health experts decided to eliminate the Guinea worm disease. The campaign was led by the Carter Center, founded by former President Jimmy Carter.

Dr. Donald R. Hopkins Jimmy Carter was a president, a peacemaker, a public health champion — and my friend. When he left the White House, Carter used the power of his name, character and influence to ...

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Since the re-emergence of guinea worm in a remote village in South Sudan, the Carter Center has returned to raise awareness ...

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Carter was also credited with having helped to persuade Egypt and Tunisia to ease violence in the Great Lakes Region of Africa in 1996, and he helped to negotiate the Nairobi Agreement to end the war ...