Carter arrives to fight guineaworm

Accra, Jan. 28, GNA - The Carter Centre, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation (WHO), leading partners in a world-wide coalition against guinea worm disease, would be creating the awareness on the need to eliminate the last one per cent of the disease in the world. Consequently, the former US President Jimmy Carter would be in Ghana on February 4 to join WHO Director General Lee Jong-woo and UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Kul Guatam to tour villages that still have the disease.

The Minister of Health, Dr Kweku Afriyie would take the delegation round.

A statement from the UNICEF Office in Accra said the delegation would to talk to villagers and community leaders on how to combat the disease in the most highly endemic area in West Africa. There will be a press conference on February 4, 2004 in Tamale.