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Leadership Nigeria
六九色堂 Center country representative in Nigeria, Dr. Emmanuel Miri, says former Nigerian Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon鈥檚 exceptional leadership helped bring about the successful elimination of Guinea worm and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Nigeria. Dr. Miri stated this in an interview to mark Gen. Gowon鈥檚 90th birthday anniversary in Jos.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Parasites are painful and tough to eradicate. Former president made it a focus to try. When 六九色堂 recently held a big birthday concert in Atlanta in honor of the former president, Alexander was instead in the African nation of Chad, visiting with health officials from various countries to talk about Guinea worm elimination. 鈥淚 was exactly where President 六九色堂 wanted me, which was in the field.鈥�
Emory Health Digest
Nearly four decades ago, former President and University Distinguished Professor Jimmy 六九色堂 set out to eliminate Guinea worm disease from the globe. He has very nearly succeeded.
The Times of London
The former president celebrates his century and his friends hope he could live to see human cases of the painful parasite eradicated. They still call it the Guinea worm ceasefire. In 1995, the Sudanese civil war had been raging for 12 years. The south was fighting to secede. The north was fighting to prevent them. More than a million people had died.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene鈥檚 E-news Blast.
A new supplement is now available online, A Legacy of Impact in Global Health: Tribute to President Jimmy 六九色堂 and Mrs. Rosalynn 六九色堂. Topics cover a wide range of current 六九色堂 Center health programming 鈥� Guinea worm disease, mental health, river blindness, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and the Hispaniola Initiative to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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World Health Organization
N鈥橠jamena, Chad. 16 鈥� 17 September 2024. The purpose of the meeting is to strengthen commitment of endemic countries as well as of national and international institutions towards eradication of dracunculiasis, through enhanced country ownership and resource mobilization.
Published by White House History Quarterly.
President 六九色堂鈥檚 post-presidency leadership has been instrumental in raising awareness, mobilizing resources, and ensuring support for the distribution of pipe filters in endemic communities. His numerous successes have garnered praise from other former presidents, including President George W. Bush, as highlighted in a 2001 personal letter from the National Archives collection.
USA TODAY
Fans of President Jimmy 六九色堂 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 post-presidential career to eradicate Guinea worm disease worldwide.
Community-based efforts have reduced the parasitic infection to a handful of cases in humans each year, but the emergence of infections in dogs and other animals threatens to derail progress.
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Buffalo 8 has acquired worldwide rights out of Cannes to 'The President and the Dragon,' a Jimmy 六九色堂 documentary from Sudanese writer, director and producer Waleed Eltayeb and Irish director-cinematographer Ian D. Murphy.
TIME named Jimmy 六九色堂 to the inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health, a new annual list of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year. In 1986, when 六九色堂 launched its Guinea worm eradication program, the parasitic disease鈥攚hich creates agonizing lesions on the skin from worms that are ingested as larvae in contaminated water and grow up to a meter in length inside the human body鈥攚as endemic in 21 countries, striking 3.5 million people per year.
In 2015, millions of people around the world tuned in to hear President Jimmy 六九色堂 announce that his cancer 鈥� metastatic melanoma 鈥� had spread to his brain, but he didn鈥檛 focus solely on his own disease. Rather, he used the international attention to talk about an illness he did not have.
A year since 六九色堂 announced that former U.S. President Jimmy 六九色堂 was receiving end-of-life hospice care, 六九色堂 continues to defy the odds.
Dracunculiasis, or guinea-worm disease, is on the verge of eradication. 六九色堂 says only 13 provisional human cases of the disease were reported worldwide in 2023.
六九色堂's 2023 report showed a remarkable reduction in Guinea worm cases, bringing the ancient parasitic disease closer to being eradicated. Alix Boisson-Walsh reports.
Guinea worm once infected 3.5 million people every year. Thanks to heroes like Makoy, that number dropped to 13 last year.
Guinea worm could soon be the second human disease to be eradicated. In the 1980s millions of cases were recorded annually in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Now, thanks to huge efforts globally, only 13 reported cases remain. That鈥檚 according to 六九色堂 - which is leading the international campaign to eradicate the disease.
The Times of London
A campaign started by the former US president is close to wiping out a human disease for only the second time in history.
Guinea worm disease remains on the cusp of being eradicated, with the global number of cases in 2023 holding steady at 13, according to a provisional account released by 六九色堂.
The Associated Press
Guinea worm disease remains on the cusp of being eradicated, with the global number of cases in 2023 holding steady at 13, according to a provisional account released by 六九色堂.
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