The Carter Center
Disease in Africa
The Carter Center helps with peace and disease worldwide. Right now they are helping in Africa with disease. Guniea worm, river blindness, and malaria are the biggest diseases in Africa. They have no medicine for Guniea worm, they have to pull it out. There is little to none Guniea worm left in Africa. For malaria they give out bed nets and treatments to the people from getting the disease
Guniea worm
This is guinea worm people can get it by drinking bad water. The larvae needs to be released so it goes out through the skiing and it takes weeks. To get rid of the worm you must pull it. Putting it in water to stop the pain won't help because the water makes the process start over. Guinea worm website: http://www.malevolentdesign.org/guinea-worm-disease-dracunculiasis/
River blindness
River blindness can be gotten by water flies biting the eye multiple times. Giving people Mectizan will repel the flies.
River blindness website: http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_17/issue_07/nature_08.html
Malaria
Malaria is carried by Mosquitos and when it bites the person is infected with malaria. There is no cure for malaria but there are bed nets to keep Mosquitos from getting in and biting people in their sleep. Malaria website: http://dxline.info/diseases/malaria
Waging peace. Fighting disease. Building hope.
On Februrary 17, 2011, Niger and Nigeria no longer have the Guinea worm. "We had 3.5 million cases of Guniea worm and village by village by village we have done away with" Jimmy Carter said about the Guniea worm disease. Helping build village based health care systems so people don't have to walk far to get medical attention. The Carter Center is helping worldwide and helping mostly in Africa.
Contact Informtion
Email: carterweb@emory.edu
Website: http://www.cartercenter.org
Location: 453 Freedom Parkway Atlanta, GA
Phone: (800) 550-3560
Facebook: facebook.com/cartercenter
Twitter: @CarterCenter
FIGHTING DISEASE: Guinea Worm 101 (The Carter Center)
Get Involved
Get involved with The Carter Center. You can donate money, become an intern, and volunteer. Just go the the website and click "Get Involved". The options are all on the website. One of the things you can do is go to public events and find more ways to help out. The Carter Center is non-profit because we have no workers, just volunteers and interns. The Carter Center runs off donations, 90% of donations go to the programs for helping.
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