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Place: Nasarawa North, Nigeria
Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Credit: ²Ø¾«¸ó/E. Staub

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, visited children suffering from schistosomiasis during their Feb. 15, 2007, trip to Nasarawa North, Nigeria. The Carters traveled to the community to bring national attention to the country's need to make disease prevention methods and treatments with the medicine praziquantel more accessible in its rural and impoverished communities.

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