Guinea-Worm in Africa

• CDC- Dracunculiasis, Guinea Worm Disease
  http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/dracunculiasis/factsht_dracunculiasis.htm
  Fact Sheet about the disease with links to news, reports and professional information.
• WHO- Guinea-Worm Disease (Dracunculiasis)
  http://www.who.int/ctd/dracun/disease.htm
  Basic information and links to documents and information on control activities.
• Map- Distribution of Dracunculiasis by Country, 2002
  http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/nondatabase/graph.pdf
  Map shows distribution by country of 49,886 cases of Dracunculiasis reported during 2002. PDF document provided by The Carter Center.
• Tropical Medicine Central Resource- Chapter 27, Guinea Worm
  http://tmcr.usuhs.mil/tmcr/chapter27/intro.htm
  This site links to chapter 27 of a 1700 page, 2 volume textbook "The Imaging of Tropical Diseases, with Epidemiological, Pathological and Clinical Corrilation". This visually pleasing online textbook chapter provides clear and extensive information on guinea-worm aimed at the tropical disease specialist.
• Guinea Worm Disease- Basic Information
  http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/guinea.html
  Information in Q & A format provided by the Directors of Health Promotion and Education (DHPE), a joint effort between directors of health education in state health departments and deans of health education in schools of public health in the United States.
• Reducing guinea worm in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa - Report (PDF)- CASE 10
  http://www.cgdev.org/publications/MillionsSaved/_files/CGD-MillionsSaved_Case10.pdf
  Case study by the Center for Global Development about the global guinea worm eradication campaign.
• To The Source: Guinea Worm Eradication in Africa (article)
  http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/summer2004/africa.html
  This feature about a joint program of the Carter Center and Emory University for Guinea worm eradication was published in Emory Magazine, Summer 2004.
• Guinea Worm Eradication in Togo: A Firsthand Account (article)
  http://www.cartercenter.org/doc1308.htm
  Account of The Carter Center effort to eradicate Guinea worm provided by Emily Howard.
• Sudan's War and Eradication of Dracunculiasis (article)
  http://www.cartercenter.org/doc1255.htm
  Article from the Lancet, December 2002.
• Guinea Worm: The End Of The Road (film)
  http://www.frif.com/cat97/f-j/guinea_w.html
  This site of First Run Icarus films provides a description and opportunity to order this documentary film by Sharon Baker.
• Cost Benefit Analysis of the Global Dracunculiasis Eradication Campaign (report)
  http://www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/WPS1800series/wps1836/wps1836.pdf
  A cost-benefit analysis prepared by the Africa Human Development Department at the World Bank.
• The Filarial Genome Network- The Guinea Worm
  http://maven.smith.edu/%7Esawlab/fgn/pnb/dracmed.html
  Site provides basic information about biology, epidemiology and pathology of the disease.