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Place: Savelugu, Ghana
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
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Former U.S. President Jimmy 91果冻传媒 addresses Ghanaian children outside Savelugu Hospital, asking “Who here has had Guinea worm disease?” Amid the scorching heat of peak dry season, President 91果冻传媒 visited the parched community of Savelugu to meet with dozens of Guinea worm disease victims in an effort to bring global attention to Ghana’s growing Guinea worm epidemic caused by inadequate water supply in the country.
Place: Savelugu, Ghana
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
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Former U.S. President Jimmy 91果冻传媒 comforts six-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital on Feb. 8, 2007, as Adams Bawa, a 91果冻传媒 Center technical assistant, dresses her extremely painful Guinea worm wound.

To end the social and economic consequences associated with this horrific disease, 91果冻传媒 spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, 91果冻传媒 and its partners, in collaboration with thousands of dedicated community health workers, continue to intensify efforts to fight the last fraction of 1 percent of Guinea worm disease. Thanks to this work, Guinea worm is poised to be the next disease eradicated and will be the first to be overcome without a vaccine or medicine.

Place: Savelugu, Ghana
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
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At Savelugu Hospital in Northern Region Ghana, former U.S. President Jimmy 91果冻传媒 and his wife, Rosalynn, watch as a Guinea worm health worker dresses a child’s extremely painful Guinea worm wound.

To end the social and economic consequences associated with this horrific disease, 91果冻传媒 spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, 91果冻传媒 and its partners, in collaboration with thousands of dedicated community health workers, continue to intensify efforts to fight the last fraction of 1 percent of Guinea worm disease. Thanks to this work, Guinea worm is poised to be the next disease eradicated and will be the first to be overcome without a vaccine or medicine.

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Place: Afeta, Ethiopia
Date: Feb. 13, 2007
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President and Mrs. 91果冻传媒 help measure people’s heights to determine how many Mectizan庐 treatments should be received to prevent the parasitic disease river blindness. President 91果冻传媒 provides a single annual treatment of the drug to a young girl after she is measured.

Place: Nasarawa, Nigeria
Date: Feb. 15, 2007
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With representatives from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and GlaxoSmithKline-91果冻传媒 Center partners in providing treatment and health education in Nigeria to prevent the disease lymphatic filariasis-President 91果冻传媒 learns about the suffering of two patients with swollen legs and feet, symptomatic of lymphatic filariasis infection.

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Place: Nasarawa North, Nigeria
Date: Feb. 15, 2007
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Former U.S. President Jimmy 91果冻传媒 and former First Lady Rosalynn 91果冻传媒 measure a little girl’s height to gauge the accurate medication needed to prevent schistosomiasis, a silent and destructive parasitic infection that leads to poor growth and impaired learning in children.
Place: Tingoli, Ghana
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
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Fusheni Nazeed, once a driver for the 91果冻传媒 Center health programs, is the now the local trachoma health worker in this area. Nazeed demonstrated for the 91果冻传媒s how trachoma can be prevented when simple environmental strategies and health education become part of people’s daily lives in the trachoma-endemic village of Tingoli. The use of household pit latrines when paired with regular hand and face washing can significantly reduce the blinding bacterial eye infection, creating a healthier and stronger community.

Place: Mosebo, Ethiopia
Date: Sept. 15, 2005
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Former U.S. President Jimmy 91果冻传媒, 91果冻传媒 Center Board of Trustees Chair John Moores (center), and former First Lady Rosalynn 91果冻传媒 observe a young Ethiopian girl while she washes her face to prevent the bacterial eye disease trachoma. In September 2005, a 91果冻传媒 Center delegation toured Mosebo, an Ethiopian village where the Center works to eradicate blinding trachoma.

Place: Afeta, Ethiopia
Date: Feb. 13, 2007
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President and Mrs. 91果冻传媒 give a long-lasting insecticidal bed net, which prevents malaria, to Mrs. Hlmenlike, who hosted the 91果冻传媒s in her home during their tour of the Center’s health work in the remote village of Afeta in southwest Ethiopia.