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Using education and simple, low-cost methods, the Carter Center’s health initiatives addressed “neglected tropical diseases”: lymphatic filariasis, trachoma, schistosomiasis and malaria.

In May 2021, for example, Britain abruptly ended a £1 million annual donation to a program that provided treatment for trachoma — a bacterial eye infection — to 1.7 million people in Zambia.

Since 2002, tens of millions of people have been treated for trachoma — and spared blindness.

The End Fund is working mightily to eradicate elephantiasis and other “neglected tropical diseases,” including river blindness and trachoma, both excruciatingly painful causes of blindness.

Approximately 11.9 million people have impaired vision or blindness caused by glaucoma, diabetes and trachoma that could have been avoided.