<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!--If you see this error message then you do not support RSS v2.0.--><rss version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Carter Center]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org]]></link><description><![CDATA[Carter Center Health Programs]]></description><item><title><![CDATA[Feb. 11, 2010: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Visits Last Stronghold of Guinea Worm Disease in Southern Sudan]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/sudan-021110.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dusty and remote village of Molujore, Terekeka County, Southern Sudan, food shortages are common, insecurity lingers, and survival is a daily struggle. Yet, important progress is being made in the effort to wipe out Guinea worm disease, resulting in the community being singled out for a visit from former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Central Equatoria State Governor Clement Wani Konga, and Commissioner Clement Maring Samuel today to urge intensification of efforts to wipe out the waterborne parasitic infection during the next transmission season beginning in April.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feb. 3, 2010: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter to View Major Progress Against Guinea Worm Disease in Sudan ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/sudan-020310.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, will travel to the world's most Guinea worm-endemic country&#151;Sudan&#151;Feb. 9-12, 2010, to personally appeal for completing eradication of the crippling waterborne parasite as soon as possible and to urge peace and stability in the nation as it prepares for its first multi-party elections in 24 years in April, which the Carter Center's international election observation team will monitor.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jan. 26, 2010: Meet Yalanbu Zenabu: Former Trichiasis Patient Sees Hopeful Future]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/publications/health/trachoma_publications/profile-yalanbu-zenabu.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three years ago, Yalanbu Zenabu of Botingli, northern Ghana, was consumed by the daily suffering of trachoma.  As a victim of trichiasis, the blinding form of trachoma, her disease had progressed to the stage where her eyelashes scratched against her eye, causing intense pain and debilitation.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jan. 5, 2010: PBS's World Focus Report:  Haiti, Dominican Republic Combine Efforts to Eradicate Malaria]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/h/malaria/world-focus-010510.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[World Focus video report on the fight against malaria in Hispaniola:  a new cooperative effort between Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter &#151; through The Carter Center &#151; to eradicate the disease.  Distributed to PBS stations nationwide.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dec. 21, 2009: Guinea Worm Disease:  Nigeria's Last Case]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/h/guinea_worm/nigeria-last-gw.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the most endemic country for Guinea worm disease in the world, Nigeria declares victory in its 20-year war. In Ezza Nkwubor village in southeastern Nigeria, 58-year-old Grace Otubo sits on a wooden bench and touches her right heel, recalling where a Guinea worm painfully emerged in November 2008.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dec. 8, 2009: Meet Alba Lucia Morales: Health Educator Fills Critical Role in Final Push Toward Onchocerciasis Elimination]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/h/river_blindness/morales-oepa.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Alba Lucia Morales Castro, health education adviser with the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA)--the Carter Center-sponsored river blindness elimination organization in Latin America--the joy of working in the field is its own reward.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[22 September 2009: Chasing the Worm]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/publications/health/guinea_worm_publications/chasing-the-worm.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[This article was published Sept. 22, 2009 by the British Medical Journal 2009;339:b3892. New cases of guinea worm disease in southern Sudan have recently fallen from 20 000 a year to an estimated 1500, and doctors are hoping that the disease will become the second in history to be eliminated.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[8 October 2009 : Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Carter Center Delegation Tour Hispaniola to Support Elimination of Malaria and Lymphatic Filariasis from Caribbean]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/h/hispaniola/2009-tour.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Efforts to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from the Caribbean island of Hispaniola were underscored Oct. 7-8 during a visit by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and a Carter Center delegation.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[13 September 2009: Statement by Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on the Death of Dr. Norman Borlaug]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/borlaug-statement-091309.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am saddened by the passing of my close friend and colleague Dr. Norman Borlaug.  For more than two decades, I had the pleasure of working with Dr. Borlaug, a senior fellow at The Carter Center, on the Sasakawa-Global 2000 effort to increase agricultural production in Africa.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[1 September 2009: Efforts to Control Blinding Trachoma Reduce Child Mortality in Ethiopia, JAMA Study Finds]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/trachoma-ethiopia-090109.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ethiopia's devastating child mortality rates&#151;which are among the highest in the world&#151;could be significantly decreased as a result of treatment to control the nonfatal eye disease trachoma, suggests new research published in the Sept. 2, 2009, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association by the University of California at San Francisco and The Carter Center, in partnership with the Ethiopia Ministry of Health.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[24 August 2009: Public Radio International's "The World:" Fighting Blindness in Ethiopia]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.theworld.org/2009/08/24/fighting-blindness-in-ethiopia/]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health problems that afflict the world's poor have received unprecedented attention in recent years. Governments and foundations alike are pouring billions of dollars into the fights against diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. But medical workers who focus on lesser known diseases say their efforts remain as difficult as ever. Reporter Odette Yousef of station WABE in Atlanta traveled to Ethiopia to follow the Carter Center's fight against trachoma, a leading cause of blindness in Africa.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[5 August 2009: "Preventing Blindness" -- CNN's Impact Your World Showcases Carter Center Trachoma Control Program ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://cartercenter.org/news/features/h/trachoma/cnn-impact-trachoma.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trachoma is the world's leading cause of "preventable" blindness, yet it costs 10 million people their eyesight.  The Carter Center, with partner organizations and community health workers in six African nations, is working to carry out simple solutions to prevent this disease affecting the world's poorest and most forgotten people.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[20 July 2009: Three Countries Announce Elimination of Blinding Trachoma at Meeting of Alliance for the Global Elimination of Blinding Trachoma]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://cartercenter.org/news/pr/get2020-072009.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[At a meeting of the World Health Organization's (WHO) global partnership on eye disease &#151; the Alliance for the Global Elimination of Blinding Trachoma by the Year 2020 (GET 2020) &#151; Ghana, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia reported that they have reached the goal for eliminating blinding trachoma.  Each country has also strengthened its health care system so it can deliver eye surgery for those in need.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[10 July 2009:The Carter Center Awards 2009-2010 Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://cartercenter.org/news/pr/mental-health-fellows-2009-2010.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[After receiving a record number of applicants, the Carter Center's Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism&#151;the only journalism fellowships exclusively for mental health&#151;announced today the winners of its 2009-2010 awards (see below for full list of fellows and their project topics). Since 1996, the fellowship program has educated more than 100 journalists, who set the standard in their field for accurate and sensitive portrayals of mental health issues.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[25 June 2009: Farmer Sows Seeds of Change in his Ghana Community]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/publications/health/agriculture_publications/farmer-sows-seeds-of-change.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the small agricultural community of Bondo, Ghana, Kojo Osonyame finds it difficult to suppress his smile as he walks through the fields of his fertile farm. Acre after acre bursts forth with healthy crops creating a colorful maze of peppers, eggplants, okra, cassava, and plantains]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[24 June 2009: Nigerien Soap Provides Income, Helps Prevent Blindness]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/publications/health/trachoma_publications/nigerien_soap.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly evening in the desert village of Adorihi in southern Niger, and 36-year-old Aisha Oumarou crouches over her cooking fire carefully mixing oil into a pot on coals. Although the mixture smells faintly of peanuts, the hot dough that Oumarou extracts from the pot and rolls between her hands is not destined to be the evening's meal, but balls of soap.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[17 June 2009: Carter Center Successfully Distributes Nine Million Doses of Antibiotics During Ethiopia MALTRA Weeks]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/h/maltra/wabe-radio-06172009.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a population of approximately 17 million, the Amhara Region of Ethiopia is one of the most severely affected trachoma-endemic areas in the world. There are currently more than 15 million people at risk of infection and approximately 470,000 people visually impaired as a result of trichiasis, the blinding form of the disease. In addition, the region is susceptible to seasonal malaria epidemics, putting the majority of the population at risk for the potentially fatal disease.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[15 June 2009: Week-Long Series Highlights Center's Work to Prevent Trachoma During "MALTRA" Weeks in Ethiopia]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/h/maltra/wabe-series.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tune in June 15-19, 2009, to Morning Edition on WABE 90.1 FM, Atlanta's NPR station, as Odette Yousef&#151;who traveled with The Carter Center to Ethiopia in April 2009&#151;reports a five-part series on work to prevent trachoma and malaria there.   Beginning Monday, June 15, segments will be aired at 6:39 a.m. and again at 8:39 a.m. (EST).    Click here for more series information and for archived reports.  Listen live online at www.pba.org/]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[29 May 2009: Ghanaian Reggae Artist Sings Out Against Guinea Worm Disease, Educates Concert-Goers About Prevention]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/features/h/guinea_worm/musician.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is dusk in northern Ghana and communities reverberate with the local mosque's call to prayer. The setting sun has fallen beyond the concrete buildings that flank the market square, casting everyone in deep purple shadow. Thousands of people are making their way to this rural outpost, the current epicenter of the country's decades-long battle to eradicate Guinea worm disease.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[29 April 2009: African Health Leaders Honor President Carter and The Carter Center for 'Pioneering' Efforts Against Neglected Diseases]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/african_leaders_honor_carter_center09.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health officials from 11 African countries have honored former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and The Carter Center for their "pioneering contributions to eradicating neglected tropical diseases in Africa." The leadership award was presented to Carter Center CEO Dr. John Hardman and Dr. Donald Hopkins, Vice President of Health Programs on April 22 in a Washington, D.C. event sponsored by The Whitaker Group, ONE, and Global Health Progress.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[17 April 2009: Read about The Carter Center's work in the 2007-2008 Annual Report (PDF) >]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://cartercenter.org/resources/pdfs/news/annual_reports/annual-report-08.pdf]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Center has observed 72 elections in 28 countries; helped farmers double or triple grain production in 15 African countries; worked to prevent and resolve civil and international conflicts worldwide; intervened to prevent unnecessary diseases in Latin America and Africa; and strived to diminish the stigma against mental illnesses.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[30 March 2009: A Milestone Toward Ending River Blindness in the Western Hemisphere by 2012: Escuintla, Guatemala Largest Endemic Area Yet to Stop Transmission (English and Spanish versions)]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.cartercenter.org/news/pr/riverblindness_2012_milestone.html]]></link><description><![CDATA[An international team of researchers led by Rodrigo Gonzalez of the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala reports that the transmission of onchocerciasis or river blindness has been broken in Escuintla, Guatemala, one of the largest endemic areas in the Western Hemisphere to date to stop the transmission of the parasitic disease.]]></description></item></channel></rss>