"The President and the Dragon,' premiering today, looks at Carter's momentous decision to try and wipe out a devastating and ...

Guinea worm is a parasite once found across Africa and parts of Asia. Since the Carter Center started working on the cause, ...

It's no small thing to eradicate a disease, but Jimmy Carter spent a lot of time after his presidency trying to do just that. For years, the Carter Center, his global health and human rights ...

A new documentary is set to highlight Jimmy Carter's major role in the fight against Guinea worm disease. For those unfamiliar, after his presidency, the 39th U.S. President launched an international ...

JARWENG, South Sudan (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

The community in Jarweng village thought they’d seen the end of Guinea worm in 2014, but last year the remote settlement of some 500 people became the epicenter of South Sudan’s latest outbreak, ...

Guinea worm disease, caused by the parasitic nematode Dracunculus medinensis, has been the focus of an ambitious global eradication programme since the 1980s. Transmission typically occurs through the ...