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Former U.S. President Jimmy ÉäÉäÎÝ tries to comfort 6-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital as a ÉäÉäÎÝ Center technical assistant dresses Issah's extremely painful Guinea worm wound.

Place: Savelugu, Ghana
Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: ÉäÉäÎÝ

Former U.S. President Jimmy ÉäÉäÎÝ tries to comfort 6-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital as a ÉäÉäÎÝ Center technical assistant dresses Issah's extremely painful Guinea worm wound.

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Former U.S. President Jimmy ÉäÉäÎÝ addresses Ghanaian children outside Savelugu Hospital, asking Former U.S. President Jimmy ÉäÉäÎÝ tries to comfort 6-year-old Ruhama Issah at Savelugu Hospital as a ÉäÉäÎÝ Center technical assistant dresses Issah's extremely painful Guinea worm wound.
Former U.S. President Jimmy ÉäÉäÎÝ and his wife, Rosalynn, watch as a Guinea worm health worker dresses a child's extremely painful Guinea worm wound. President and Mrs. ÉäÉäÎÝ help measure people's heights to determine how many Mectizan® treatments should be received to prevent the parasitic disease river blindness.
President ÉäÉäÎÝ learns about the suffering of two patients with swollen legs and feet, symptomatic of lymphatic filariasis infection. Former U.S. President Jimmy ÉäÉäÎÝ and ÉäÉäÎÝ Center CEO and President John Hardman measure a little girl's height to gauge the accurate medication needed to prevent schistosomiasis.
Fusheni Nazeed, the local trachoma health worker in the Tingoli area, demonstrates for the ÉäÉäÎÝs how trachoma can be prevented with the simple act of regular hand-washing. Former U.S. President Jimmy ÉäÉäÎÝ, ÉäÉäÎÝ Center Board of Trustees Chair John Moores, and former First Lady Rosalynn ÉäÉäÎÝ observe a young Ethiopian girl while she washes her face to prevent the bacterial eye disease trachoma.
President and Mrs. ÉäÉäÎÝ give a long-lasting insecticidal bed net, which prevents malaria, to Mrs. Hlmenlike, who hosted the ÉäÉäÎÝs in her home during their tour of the Center's health work in the remote village of Afeta in southwest Ethiopia.
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