Just the Facts — The 2007 Wrap-Up Healthy Athletes Update  Meet the Special Olympics Healthy Athletes Staff Athletes Corner In the Spotlight with Samantha Tabacchi of Safio S.p.A. Just the Facts - The 2007 Wrap-Up NewsBytes Student Grant Spotlight Success Stories from the Field In 2007, 12 countries conducted Healthy Athletes screenings for the first time: Benin (Health Promotion, MedFest, Opening Eyes) Cameroon (MedFest); Congo (MedFest) Cote d'Ivoire (MedFest, Opening Eyes) Kenya (Special Smiles, MedFest, Opening Eyes) Laos (MedFest) Malawi (MedFest) Mali (Opening Eyes) Mauritius (Health Promotion) Pakistan (Opening Eyes) Rwanda (Health Promotion, MedFest) and Uganda (Health Promotion, MedFest) Healthy Athletes currently screens athletes in 92 Special Olympics Programs around the world. At the close of 2007, 63,925 health professionals have received hands-on training and volunteers at events and 1,008 Clinical Directors have been trained to run screening events. Return to Healthy Athletes Update, Spring 2008