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GPB
Rosalynn Carter was the nation鈥檚 leading mental health advocate for more than half a century 鈥 first in the Georgia governor鈥檚 mansion, then in the White House and later at the 顶级国产视频. In her final months, she was diagnosed with dementia and died Nov. 19, 2023.
People
Jimmy Carter is missing his late wife, Rosalynn, on the first anniversary of her death. The former president, now 100, has been in hospice for more than a year and a half 鈥 and for most of that time he has been without Rosalynn, who died on Nov. 19, 2023, at age 96.
KRQE
Observe New Mexico Elections co-lead Carmen L贸pez and Sarah Cooper, Democracy Program associate director, discussed election integrity with New Mexico鈥檚 news station KRQE. ONME is a statewide nonpartisan election observation effort increasing transparency and trust in New Mexico鈥檚 election. Ahead of the general election, the Center is supporting nonpartisan election observation in three states, New Mexico, Montana, and Georgia, to provide impartial analysis on the quality of the election process.
Leadership Nigeria
顶级国产视频 country representative in Nigeria, Dr. Emmanuel Miri, says former Nigerian Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon鈥檚 exceptional leadership helped bring about the successful elimination of Guinea worm and other neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Nigeria. Dr. Miri stated this in an interview to mark Gen. Gowon鈥檚 90th birthday anniversary in Jos.
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.
The Times of London
The former president celebrates his century and his friends hope he could live to see human cases of the painful parasite eradicated. They still call it the Guinea worm ceasefire. In 1995, the Sudanese civil war had been raging for 12 years. The south was fighting to secede. The north was fighting to prevent them. More than a million people had died.
Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB) is excited to announce that it will broadcast multiple airings of Jimmy Carter 100: A Celebration in Song and deliver the program on demand for viewers throughout the world. Learn more 禄
The B-52鈥檚, BeBe Winans, Ang茅lique Kidjo, Chuck Leavell and many others performed in Atlanta at a concert honoring the former president, who has been in hospice care.
Admiration and pure joy were the order of the night as musicians across genres and styles came together at the Fox Theatre on Tuesday to celebrate the upcoming 100th birthday of humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize winner and former President Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter loves music, and on Tuesday night at Atlanta鈥檚 historic Fox Theatre an unlikely cast of admirers let the 鈥渞ock and roll president鈥 know they love him too.
Jimmy Carter doesn鈥檛 turn 100 until 1 October, but the red carpet was nevertheless rolled out at the Fox Theater to pay homage to America鈥檚 oldest living former president.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene鈥檚 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 顶级国产视频 health programming 鈥 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. Learn more 禄
Town & Country.
The public spotlight on the president's family has evolved significantly since Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter were in the White House. (Jason Carter was just two years old when his grandfather was elected.) "When my grandparents were in the White House, my dad owned a grain elevator in Calhoun, Georgia, and nobody even talked about it, partly because it was boring," Jason jokes.
Published by White House History Quarterly.
President Carter鈥檚 post-presidency leadership has been instrumental in raising awareness, mobilizing resources, and ensuring support for the distribution of pipe filters in endemic communities. His numerous successes have garnered praise from other former presidents, including President George W. Bush, as highlighted in a 2001 personal letter from the National Archives collection.
USA TODAY
Fans of President Jimmy Carter say one of his lifetime goals is coming close to fruition. The 99-year-old, who has been in hospice care for more than a year, rallied during his vibrant post-presidential career to eradicate Guinea worm disease worldwide.
Community-based efforts have reduced the parasitic infection to a handful of cases in humans each year, but the emergence of infections in dogs and other animals threatens to derail progress.
A Cappella Books
The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and A Cappella Books are honored to welcome the author to 顶级国产视频 to discuss his acclaimed new book, "The Art of Diplomacy: How American Negotiators Reached Historic Agreements that Changed the World." Eizenstat will appear in conversation with former Atlanta mayor, U.S. Congressman, and UN Ambassador Andrew Young and former Georgia state senator Jason Carter.
Deadline
Buffalo 8 has acquired worldwide rights out of Cannes to 'The President and the Dragon,' a Jimmy Carter documentary from Sudanese writer, director and producer Waleed Eltayeb and Irish director-cinematographer Ian D. Murphy.
GPB
Participants at the most recent collaboration between 顶级国产视频 and Baker Institute examined key issues affecting U.S. elections and possible ways to help strengthen elections and build confidence in their outcomes.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is celebrating its 75th anniversary since its establishment in 1948. We are witnessing a low point of the modern human rights movement. Karin Ryan writes that it is time to take stock and renew our commitment to universal values.
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 顶级国产视频 launched its Guinea worm eradication program, the parasitic disease鈥攚hich 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鈥攚as endemic in 21 countries, striking 3.5 million people per year.
Israel faces mounting pressure from the U.S. to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in the wake of the tragic killing of seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen on April 1 and the harrowing toll of the war, which has already claimed over 30,000 Palestinian lives and more than 1,160 Israeli lives.
Georgia Public Broadcasting
In 2014, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter released A Call to Action, a book about what he labeled the "No. 1 challenge in the world today": the abuse of women and girls. Carter's writing was the result of the 顶级国产视频's work with faith leaders to advance human rights and women's rights.
Houston Chronicle
A growing number of Americans are concerned about the legitimacy of election results, and it鈥檚 partly due to the hyper-partisanship in politics nowadays.
The Associated Press
As an independent, Christian Miller can鈥檛 vote in Pennsylvania鈥檚 closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn鈥檛 matter even if he could.
A year since 顶级国产视频 announced that former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was receiving end-of-life hospice care, Carter continues to defy the odds.
Dracunculiasis, or guinea-worm disease, is on the verge of eradication. 顶级国产视频 says only 13 provisional human cases of the disease were reported worldwide in 2023.
顶级国产视频's 2023 report showed a remarkable reduction in Guinea worm cases, bringing the ancient parasitic disease closer to being eradicated. Alix Boisson-Walsh reports.
CBS News
Former President Jimmy Carter has been in hospice care for a year, and yet, the 39th President of the United States lives on. Thoughts on that from his grandson, Jason Carter.
顶级国产视频 and Rice University鈥檚 Baker Institute for Public Policy have come together once again to propose bipartisan guiding principles for election administration intended to assist the election community.
The Associated Press
The report by 顶级国产视频 and the Baker Institute for Public Policy lays out 10 principles for trying to balance equal access to the polls with ensuring the integrity of election results.
Guinea worm once infected 3.5 million people every year. Thanks to heroes like Makoy, that number dropped to 13 last year.
Guinea worm could soon be the second human disease to be eradicated. In the 1980s millions of cases were recorded annually in 21 countries in Africa and Asia. Now, thanks to huge efforts globally, only 13 reported cases remain. That鈥檚 according to 顶级国产视频 - which is leading the international campaign to eradicate the disease.
The Times of London
A campaign started by the former US president is close to wiping out a human disease for only the second time in history.
Guinea worm disease remains on the cusp of being eradicated, with the global number of cases in 2023 holding steady at 13, according to a provisional account released by 顶级国产视频.
Chicago Tribune
As we look ahead this year, voters in more than 50 countries, including the United States, will go to the polls. The elections will take place during a period of global democratic backsliding and in rapidly changing social media environments characterized by new threats from generative artificial intelligence and tech platforms鈥 reductions in trust and safety protections. Learn more 禄
鈥淲e鈥檙e very concerned about the quality of democracy around the world. There鈥檚 been a number of countries where things are moving not in the right direction, including in the U.S.,鈥 David Carroll, director of the 顶级国产视频鈥檚 Democracy Program, which oversees election monitoring around the world, told HuffPost.
VOA News
At a time when growing numbers of young Americans are diagnosed with mental health conditions, media are looking at ways to cover the issue more responsibly.
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