The Nobel prizewinner worked tirelessly with wife Rosalynn Carter to eradicate Guinea-worm disease.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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".

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 ...

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