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[edit] Carter Center Receives Historic Guinea Worm Challenge Grant from ...

3 December 2008, by unknown A $40 million challenge grant for guinea worm eradication from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest in Carter Center history.

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[edit] Destination Zoggu/Zogu

30 November 2008, by Kimmie Guinea worm. This is a parasite that is contracted via drinking dam water. (When I say dam water I mean any large, naturally occurring reservoir of water that is collected over time from rain…think very small lake/pond. ...

[edit] She’sa fixer-upper

30 November 2008, by Maria We had been traveling for 8 hours with our counterparts (a person in our communities who we will be working closely with, my counterpart is Abukari, Sankpala’s guinea worm coordinator), and we were just an hour from Tamale. ...

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27 November 2008, by Hannah Most people use hand-dug wells in the wet season, but these dry up pretty quickly and not long into the dry season, the sole source of water is the dam, favorite hiding place of guinea worm and other fantastic diseases and parasites. ...

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[edit] Guinea Worm Disease

24 November 2008, by unknown Chikungunya [ Chicken Guinea ] By Spencer JonesChikungunya also known Chicken Guinea is a kind of viral fever caused by alpha virus which is called Chikungunya Virus or Chicken Guinea virus. Chikungunya got its name from the Makonde ...

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[edit] Guinea worm eradication - Franklin News Post

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[edit] TeacherTube - SUDAN Carter Center Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease Africa

10 November 2008, by jmrx3 Description: SUDAN Carter Center Eradicate Guinea Worm Disease Africa 15-Sep-2008] The Carter Center, headed by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, has deployed a wide initiative to eradicate Guinea worm in Africa. ...

[edit] WHO targets 7 diseases - Tempo

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[edit] GUINEA WORM CASES REDUCE IN PRU DISTRICT (MIRROR, PAGE 35)

19 October 2008, by Akwasi Ampratwum-Mensah The health system in the Pru District in the Brong Ahafo Region recorded a reduction in guinea worm cases from 169 in 2005 to 97 cases in 2006 and down to 12 in 2007. Only two cases were recorded by June, this year. ...

[edit] Discover ......: Will The Guinea Worm Strike Again?

3 October 2008, by Jan Green Discover ......: Will The Guinea Worm Strike Again? Exposed humans can infect community. Click back link to learn more.

[edit] Killing the Worm

26 September 2008, by The Building Fund This month's issue of Good Magazine featured an article called Killing the Worm, by Austin Merrill, exposing the difficulty of eradicating Guinea worm disease in Ghana. Cases of Guinea worm disease have dropped dramatically in the last ...

[edit] DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Success Story Against Guinea Worm

23 September 2008, by Avery Guinea worms are parasites — organisms that live in other organisms. The parasites enter the body when a person drinks water containing water fleas infected with Guinea worm larvae, the young form of the worm. ...

[edit] Will the end of Dracunuliasis be Jimy Carter's enduring legacy?

29 August 2008, by I don’t usually bother with newspaper columnists or commentators. Most irritate or infuriate me, including Johann Hari. But today one of his articles caught my eye.It is about what will hopefully be the imminent demise of Dracunuliasis, a particularly unpleasant parasitic infestation And now for the great news... some time next year – or soon after – a beautiful moment in the history of humanity will come to pass on the Western shores of Africa. An excruciatingly painful disease that has st

[edit] World Briefing | Africa: Niger: Reward for Guinea Worm Alerts

23 August 2008, by Niger will award 5,000 CFA francs to anyone who reports a case of Guinea worm, a waterborne parasite, to the authorities as part of a global eradication effort.

[edit] Niger offers reward to help stamp out Guinea worm

22 August 2008, by NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger is to offer a reward of just over $10 (5 pounds) to anyone who reports a case of Guinea worm to authorities as part of a global effort to eradicate the painful waterborne parasite, the health ministry said on Friday.

[edit] Niger offers reward to help stamp out Guinea worm

22 August 2008, by NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger is to offer a reward of just over $10 (5 pounds) to anyone who reports a case of Guinea worm to authorities as part of a global effort to eradicate the painful waterborne parasite, the health ministry said on Friday.

[edit] Niger offers reward to help stamp out Guinea worm

22 August 2008, by Niger is to offer a reward of just over $10 to anyone who reports a case of Guinea worm to authorities as part of a global effort to eradicate the painful waterborne parasite,... More

[edit] Blog: “Forgotten” diseases

13 August 2008, by NAIROBI, 12 August 2008 (IRIN) - Here are over a dozen of the world's “forgotten” diseases listed on WHO's Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD) website: Buruli Ulcer, Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), Dengue/dengue haemorrhagic fever, Dracunculiasis (guinea-worm disease), ...

[edit] Ghana: UNICEF and the European Commission work together to eradicate Guinea worm

12 July 2008, by “Ghana is second on the list of Guinea worm endemic countries. Until recently, the Savelugu-Nanton district of northern Ghana had the highest number of reported cases of the disease, which is contracted when a person drinks water contaminated with infected larvae. However, a shift in these statistics is now under way, following last year’s launch of a project that aims to provide water supply systems, hygiene programmes and improved sanitation in nine districts in northern Ghana. The project

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[edit] Guinea worm eradication: President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d’Ivoire receives Jimmy Carter Prize

29 May 2008, by The Jimmy Carter Prize, sponsored by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, was awarded to President Laurent Gbagbo of the Cote d’Ivoire for his push to eradicate the waterborne disease Guinea worm in his country. Ivoirien Minister of Health and Public Hygiene Allah Kouadio Remi was another nominee. Fighting Guinea worm, or dracontiasis, is an uphill battle in regions where there isn’t enough safe drinking water, whether from poor waste disposal, rapid population growth, or both, as in Abidjan Di

[edit] Complete Information on Dracunculiasis with Treatment and Prevention

23 May 2008, by Complete Information on Dracunculiasis with Treatment and Prevention Rarely, dracunculiasis can present with worms located in anomalous locations, including the lungs, pancreas, testes, spinal cord, or periorbital tissue. Dracunculiasis, is a transmission caused by the parasite dracunculus medinensis. It is more usually known as guinea insect disease. Infection affects impoverished communities in distant parts of africa that do not get secure water to drink. Adult female dracunculus worms eme

[edit] Complete Information on Dracunculiasis with Treatment and Prevention

23 May 2008, by Complete Information on Dracunculiasis with Treatment and Prevention Categories: 4117 | May 23rd, 2008 | by admin | no comments Rarely, dracunculiasis can present with worms located in anomalous locations, including the lungs, pancreas, testes, spinal cord, or periorbital tissue. Dracunculiasis, is a transmission caused by the parasite dracunculus medinensis. It is more usually known as guinea insect disease. Infection affects impoverished communities in distant parts of africa that do not g

[edit] Complete Information on Dracunculiasis with Treatment and Prevention

22 May 2008, by Complete Information on Dracunculiasis with Treatment and Prevention Posted on May 22, 2008 Filed Under 4309 | Leave a Comment Rarely, dracunculiasis can present with worms located in anomalous locations, including the lungs, pancreas, testes, spinal cord, or periorbital tissue. Dracunculiasis, is a transmission caused by the parasite dracunculus medinensis. It is more usually known as guinea insect disease. Infection affects impoverished communities in distant parts of africa that do not get

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[edit] Worm cast

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3 April 2008, by Ben Smith / Ben Smith's Blogs: Carter hints at Obama backing   —  The Nigerian paper This Day reports that the former president all but came out for Obama, speaking to reporters in that country: … He was in Abuja, the paper reports, for the Carter Center awards for guinea worm eradication. ...

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[edit] Country Still Plagued By Guinea Worm - Minister

28 March 2008, by After 20 years of establishing the Nigeria Guinea Worm Eradication Programme (NIGEP), the disease is yet to be eradicated, the acting Minister of Health, Dr Hassan Lawal, said yesterday in Abuja.

[edit] Save the Guinea Worm Foundation: defending the world's most endangered species.

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[edit] Fighting the Scourge of the Guinea Worm

28 January 2008, by photo A Ghanaian village bands together to eradicate a debilitating parasite. Photographs by Peter DiCampo

[edit] Guinea Worm Cases Drop By 7 Percent

14 December 2007, by A total of 3,287 Guinea Worm cases have been reported and managed in Ghana, between January and November this year, with the Northern Region alone reporting 3,169 cases representing 96 per cent.

[edit] Nigeria: Largesse for Ebonyi Founding Fathers

2 October 2007, by For a state still struggling to overcome educational backwardness and the scourge of guinea worm, the expectation is that strenuous efforts will be made by the Government to reduce the tally of the effect of such set-backs.

[edit] Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease - New York Times

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