Watch the Live Webcast:  The Carter Center Awards for Guinea Worm Eradication

Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011
6:30-7:30 p.m. EST
www.cartercenter.org

Join via live webcast from www.cartercenter.org as former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and dignitaries from around the world celebrate Nigeria and Niger as the most recent countries to mark a full year with no indigenous cases of Guinea worm disease. The awards ceremony will be held in the Cecil B. Day Chapel of The Carter Center, located in Atlanta, Ga.

Nigeria and Niger join 14 other countries that have halted the disease since the eradication campaign began in 1986. Four remaining countries are fighting the last few thousand cases of Guinea worm disease: Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, and Ghana.

An ancient and horrible affliction, Guinea worm disease is poised to become only the second human disease to be eradicated from the earth, and the first without the use of vaccines or medicines, as a result of a 24-year international campaign led by The Carter Center.

Find out more about the disease and the progress of the eradication campaign at www.cartercenter.org/guinea-worm.

The live webcast will be archived for later viewing on the Carter Center’s website.