Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A jar containing Guinea worms is shown in Atlanta, where Carter Center volunteers helped assemble medical kits to fight Guinea ...

JARWENG – Nobel 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 painful and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fans of President Jimmy Carter say one of his lifetime goals is coming close to fruition. The 99-year-old, who has been in hospice ...

File photo: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter tries to comfort 6-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital as a Carter Center technical assistant dresses Issah's extremely painful Guinea worm wound.

Even after his passing, President Jimmy Carter’s legacy as a do-gooder continues to reach new milestones. The late president’s longtime goal of eradicating Guinea worm disease is now closer to being ...

ATLANTA — The Carter Center is hailing a new record low in worldwide Guinea worm cases, with only 10 reported in 2025. The Carter Center has long worked to eradicate the disease, going back to Jimmy ...

When in 1988 former US President Jimmy Carter toured Denchira and Elevanyo, two villages near Accra, Ghana, he noticed a young woman who appeared to be cradling a baby. Carter approached her for a ...

Fans of President Jimmy Carter say one of his lifetime goals is coming close to fruition. The 99-year-old, who has been in hospice care for more than a year, rallied during his vibrant ...

FILE - Carter Center intern Sarah Ellis Peed helps assemble medical kits to fight Guinea worm disease at a warehouse in Atlanta, Wednesday, July 28, 2004. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) JARWENG, South ...