1. The Carter Center News Spring 2007
- Publication Date:
- 03-2007
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- The Carter Center
- Abstract:
- Six-year-old Ruhmam Issah cries as a health worker slowly removes a long, spaghetti-like worm from her swollen ankle. Beside Issah, here in dusty Savelugu, Ghana, is former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, providing comfort to the girl by way of gentle pats and kind words. President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, visited the hospital in northern Ghana where Issah was being treated to meet with dozens of Guinea worm disease patients receiving care in a national effort to eradicate the disease by this time next year.
- Topic:
- International Relations and Human Rights
- Political Geography:
- Africa and Democratic Republic of the Congo