Under Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter's leadership, the Carter Center has monitored more than 100 elections, treated millions of people suffering neglected tropical diseases, and is on the verge of total eradication of Guinea worm.
Whether fighting to remove the stigma associated with mental illness, eradicating neglected tropical diseases or monitoring elections abroad, the Steel Magnolia never stopped making the world better, even in her 90s.
And that's a conservative estimate because it doesn't include children or anyone under 30, or other factors like the spread of tropical diseases into new regions as the globe warms.
Sadi Moussa, the Carter Center Senior representative in Mali, believes the success of his organization's trachoma program could boost efforts, to combat other neglected tropical diseases like guinea worm.
We can change this. We can tackle other tropical diseases, too, such as schistosomiasis, a debilitating parasitic disease that affects 200 million people a year.
That's no surprise, so at the Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases in North Hospital, in Marseille, France, hydro-alcoholic solution dispensers are everywhere.
Malecela said, " All the efforts that have been done to control neglected tropical diseases, to bring about elimination in most of the affected countries, will be reversed if the focus is not kept" .
The Carter Center was already a decade into its fight against guinea worm globally, when former President Jimmy Carter and his global non-profit took on another neglected tropical disease in the African nation of Mali.
Ghanaian inventor Andrew Quao is working to ease the burden on hospitals with technology that can diagnose chronic and tropical diseases and pharmacies.