Lessons from a humanitarian icon

A crippling parasitic disease, transmitted exclusively when people drink stagnant water, dracunculiasis is poised for eradication, with 25 human cases reported in 2016. #BeatNTDs

Kenyans will remember President Jimmy Carter as the man who defeated the guinea worm. The disease is on schedule to be eradicated by 2030.

In 2015, millions of people around the world tuned in to hear President Jimmy Carter announce that his cancer – metastatic melanoma – had spread to his brain, but he didn’t focus solely on his own dis...