Jimmy carter.

Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health Paul Hunt, and United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and Extreme Poverty

Lillian Carter, Rosalynn Carter, and caregiving.

O n March 10, 2011, former First Lady Rosalynn Carter was the guest speaker for the 20th induction ceremony of the Georgia Women of Achievement at Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. No one was more appropriate for this role, as one of the three women inducted that day was her own mother-in-law, Lillian Gordy Carter, who passed away in 1983 at the age of 85. Both of my parents were born and rai...

Summary of the Third Meeting of the Itfde(ii)

This meeting of the International Task Force for Disease Eradication (ITFDE) was convened at The Carter Center from 9:00am to 4:00pm on October 18, 2002. The Task Force reviewed the status of global efforts to eliminate lymphatic filariasis, as well as the control of African trypanosomiasis. The names of members of the Task Force or their representatives who participated in the meeting, the pre...

Relationship of Supervised Agricultural Experience Program Participation and Student Achievement in Agricultural Education1

The value of experiential learning in agricultural education has long been recognized as an important part of the educational process. Through practice and experience students apply what they have learned in real situations, thus the material becomes understandable and usable. Moreover, in the process of gaining experience, new problems and situations arise causing learners to seek additional i...

We have ‘a very good chance’ of eliminating blinding trachoma by 2020

Former US President Jimmy Carter, speaking at the 15th anniversary of Pfizer’s donation of Zithromax® in New York on 5th November 2013, said: "With the help of Pfizer, we are trying to eliminate blinding trachoma from the face of the earth by 2020. I think we have a very good chance of reaching this goal." During the past 15 years, Pfi zer – through the International Trachoma Initiative (ITI) –...