| Former
U.S. President Jimmy Carter praised LCIF’s
efforts against blindness May 19 in Geneva
in an important
speech at the World Health Assembly.
Former
President Carter saluted the efforts of
The Carter Center, LCIF and other groups
in fighting river blindness and trachoma.
His audience included ministers of health
of many nations and pharmaceutical industry
representatives.
LCIF’s
SightFirst program has supported more than
50
million treatments of river blindness
in Africa and Latin America since it forged
a partnership with The Carter Center in
1999. The partnership also is targeting
trachoma, the world's leading cause of preventable
blindness. SightFirst is controlling trachoma
among 2 million people in three countries.
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