Former President Olusegun Obasanjo and ex-Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun were among notable figures who paid tribute ...

The management of the University of Ibadan has named its administrative block at the Postgraduate College after renowned ...

Associate Professor Dr. Do Trung Dung discusses the resurgence of the guinea worm. Photo: Thanh Loan. Although the World Health Organization (WHO) once certified Vietnam as free from Dracunculus ...

In the 1980s, UNICEF and partners took on Guinea worm, a debilitating parasitic disease. Joining them in that fight: former President Jimmy Carter. In June 2023, Mariam, a Sudanese refugee from ...

Jimmy Carter tries to comfort 6-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital in Ghana as a Carter Center technical assistant dresses Issah's Guinea worm wound. In May 2010, Ghana reported its last ...

Former President Jimmy Carter worked for decades to eradicate Guinea worm disease around the world. Whereas 3.5 million cases of the painful parasitic infection were recorded in 1986, preliminary ...

Thanks to the efforts of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, the Guinea worms that affected 3.5 million people in 1986 are now on the brink of extinction. The Carters made eradicating the disease a top ...

He's an icon, irreplaceable ... “President Carter negotiated what was called the Guinea worm cease-fire. He basically got people to put their guns down for a period of time so that the program ...

Rarely fatal but searingly painful and debilitating, Guinea worm disease infects people who drink water tainted with larvae that grow inside the body into worms as much as 3-feet-long. The noodle ...

For years, the Carter Center, his global health and human rights organization in Atlanta, has led the fight to end Guinea worm disease. In just a few decades, the number of human infections has ...