The Global Health Innovative Technology (GHIT) Fund announced today a total investment of approximately JPY 578 million (USD 4.0 million1) in four projects for the development of new diagnostics and drugs for neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and malaria.
Emory Health Digest
Nearly four decades ago, former President and University Distinguished Professor Jimmy Carter set out to eliminate Guinea worm disease from the globe. He has very nearly succeeded.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s E-news Blast.
A new supplement is now available online, A Legacy of Impact in Global Health: Tribute to President Jimmy Carter and Mrs. Rosalynn Carter. Topics cover a wide range of current ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ health programming — Guinea worm disease, mental health, river blindness, trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis, and the Hispaniola Initiative to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
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TIME named Jimmy Carter to the inaugural 2024 TIME100 Health, a new annual list of 100 individuals who most influenced global health this year. In 1986, when the ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ launched its Guinea worm eradication program, the parasitic disease—which creates agonizing lesions on the skin from worms that are ingested as larvae in contaminated water and grow up to a meter in length inside the human body—was endemic in 21 countries, striking 3.5 million people per year.
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