In retirement, Buhari has chosen to lead by example - living simply, mentoring younger leaders, and steadfastly supporting initiatives aligned with his lifelong commitments. While no longer in office, ...

Gen. Yakubu Gowon, who served as Nigeria’s military head of state from 1966 to 1975, has dedicated his post-retirement life ...

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 ...

Diseases like lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, river blindness, schistosomiasis … and a disease caused by a nasty little bug called a Guinea worm. Guinea worms are spread through contaminated drinking ...

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 ...

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 ...

FILE - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter poses for photographers with a water pipe filter, that is used to combat guinea worm disease, during a news conference to mark the launch of a campaign to ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Former President Jimmy Carter holds a water pipe filter at an October 2011 news conference in London to discuss a campaign to eradicate the Guinea worm.

PLAINS, Ga. — Noble Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing the world’s poorest people. Rarely fatal but searingly ...