In 2016, only three countries — Chad, Ethiopia, and South Sudan — reported a total of 25 human cases of Guinea worm disease, and Mali reported no cases at all for the first time in the history of its program.
One afternoon last summer, a 14-year-old boy from China turned up at The Carter Center bearing a check for $451. Leo Hu and his schoolmates in Xi-an raised the money by charging admission to a play they wrote about Syrian refugees, and he flew all the way to across the Pacific to deliver it in person.
Jude Musa from Gidan Gimba village in Nasarawa State, Nigeria, goes to school, plays soccer, and hopes one day to become a soldier or drummer. Three years ago, however, Jude noticed symptoms of schistosomiasis, or "snail fever.".
Carter Center intern and election observer Jake Turner did some soul searching after Colombian citizens voted against a proposed peace accord with the Marxist rebel group FARC. Find out why this failure was actually good for everyone involved.
If you're in Atlanta, we invite you to visit our special exhibition at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum. Created by the American Museum of Natural History in collaboration with The Carter Center, the exhibition highlights several global efforts to fight infections including Guinea worm disease.
Newspaper reporter Jaclyn Cosgrove wanted to dig deeper into serious mental health issues, but the tools at hand weren’t adequate for the job. That changed dramatically when she received a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism.
