The World Health Organization leader worked with Carter for 20 years to fight the world's "neglected" diseases. After ...

As world leaders mourn the death of former President Jimmy Carter and remark on his political and policy legacy, doctors are ...

The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

Jimmy Carter’s example — as a leader, a humanitarian, and a human — can guide us through these unclear times, writes WHO ...

It’s the world’s most exclusive fraternity and, on Thursday, all five members of the so-called presidents club will gather to ...

Former President Carter's state funeral is Thursday. A Sun-Times reporter interviewed Carter in Nepal in 2008, and writes about his work to eradicate the eye disease trachoma and other neglected ...

according to the CDC and the World Health Organization. "Nobody else wanted to take it on," Jimmy Carter told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos during a 2015 interview on "Good Morning America".

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday, was devoted to global health in the decades following his time in office, ...

I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die,” Carter said at a news conference in 2015. “I’d like for ...

Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close. Carter helped lead a decades-long campaign ...

President Jimmy Carter channeled his work on the world ... talking to the leadership of the World Health Organization and UNICEF and other international U.N. agencies. But then he was also talking ...

Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker Jimmy Carter spent nearly four decades waging war to eliminate an ancient parasite plaguing ...