Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis ...

Guinea has officially joined Ghana, Togo, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, and Chad in eliminating human ...

A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related ...

The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a ...

A comprehensive strategy that combines pharmacological advances, vector control, public outreach to raise awareness and ...

( MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS) World health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or ...

Over the course of several months, their symptoms developed from excruciating ... doctors found the group were suffering from sleeping sickness, or human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), a parasitic ...

CONAKRY, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness ... according to the WHO. Symptoms include fever ...