Health, Election Work Elevated Jimmy Carter Post-presidency

From its founding, Carter insisted that the humanitarian organization focus on work that others had not or would not tackle, including the Guinea-worm eradication project, which cut the number of cases of the disease from 3.5 million in 1986 to 126 in 2014. The Carter Center's staff also opened regional offices and assisted for years with efforts to write a constitution, despite one failed effort and several postponed elections. Experts in the field say Carter's work put the integrity of elections under a microscope and established election monitoring as a serious and professional industry. During a follow-up exam, doctors discovered a mass on his liver that was removed in August and determined to be melanoma. River blindness disease can lead to loss of sight, along with a rash or skin discoloration, when biting black flies transmit larvae. Carter offered a glimpse of how intimately he is involved in these projects, easily reciting statistics to reporters and expressing frustration over medication getting stuck in African or Latin American ports.

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