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For 2024 reviews, you will be able to register for and attend only the sessions to which you are invited.
The meetings and dates are as follows:
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Mental Health Program (Monday, April 15, 2024)
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Special Health Programs (Tuesday, April 16, 2024)
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Guinea Worm Eradication Program (Wednesday, April 17 – Friday, April 19, 2024)
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Trachoma Control Program (Monday, April 22 – Tuesday, April 23, 2024)
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River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, and Schistosomiasis Programs (Wednesday, April 24 - Friday, April 26, 2024)
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Hispaniola Initiative (Tuesday, April 30, 2024)
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Learn more about the Programs
Mental Health Program
Monday, April 15, 2024
Under the leadership of former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, a longtime champion for the rights of people with mental illnesses, we envision a world where mental health is valued, promoted and protected as a human right and where everyone has equal access to mental health supports and services.
Special Health Programs
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Special Health Programs (SHP) fosters cross-programmatic efforts, new initiatives, and special projects to support the Health Program vision of advancing human rights by leveraging expertise in disease control, elimination, and eradication as well as mental health, collaborating with Peace and across Health Programs, and building the capacity of health systems where we work.
Guinea Worm Eradication Program
Wednesday, April 17 - Friday, April 19, 2024
Since 1986, The Carter Center has led the international campaign to eradicate Guinea worm disease, working closely with ministries of health and local communities, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and many others.
Guinea worm disease is poised to be the second human disease in history, after smallpox, to be eradicated. It would be the first parasitic disease to be eradicated and the first disease to be eradicated without the use of a vaccine or medicine.
Trachoma Control Program
Monday, April 22 - Tuesday, April 23, 2024
As a global leader in the fight against trachoma, The Carter Center and partners implement the World Health Organization endorsed SAFE strategy (Surgery, Antibiotics, Facial Cleanliness, and Environmental Improvement) for trachoma control. The Carter Center's Trachoma Control Program was established in 1998, the same year in which the World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA51.11 targeting the global elimination of trachoma as a public health disease. Currently, the Carter Center’s Trachoma Control Program assists ministries of health in five African countries to eliminate trachoma as a public health problem, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, and Sudan.
River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, and Schistosomiasis Programs
Wednesday, April 24 - Friday, April 26, 2024
The Carter Center currently works to eliminate river blindness in the following countries: Brazil, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Uganda, and Venezuela. Together with the respective ministries of health and partners, the Carter Center's Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas (OEPA) has successfully eliminated river blindness transmission from Colombia (2013), Ecuador (2014), Mexico (2015), and Guatemala (2016).
The Carter Center also works with national ministries of health to eliminate the debilitating parasitic disease lymphatic filariasis — a leading cause of permanent and long-term disability worldwide — from areas of Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Sudan.
The Carter Center undertakes one of the longest-running initiatives in providing health education and treatment for schistosomiasis in Nigeria, the world's most endemic country for this preventable but devastating disease.
The Hispaniola Initiative
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
The Carter Center's Hispaniola Initiative works with the ministries of health in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to eliminate malaria and lymphatic filariasis from the countries' shared island, Hispaniola.