West Africans have a high risk of kidney disease. New study confirms genetic cause
Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a ...
WHO has a 2030 deadline to eradicate sleeping sickness but is the world actually getting rid of it?
Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...
Guinea has wiped out sleeping sickness – will the rest of Africa follow?
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 eliminated as public health problem in Guinea
Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...
El País in English4d
‘The tsetse fly is attracted to the color blue’: How Guinea has managed to eliminate sleeping sickness as a public health problem
A comprehensive strategy that combines pharmacological advances, vector control, public outreach to raise awareness and ...
AllAfrica.com13d
Guinea Eliminates Sleeping Sickness as Public Health Threat
The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a ...
TheHealthSite12d
Guinea Successfully Eliminates Human African Trypanosomiasis AKA Sleeping Sickness: WHO Report
What is sleeping sickness? The Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, is a potentially fatal disease caused by parasites called Trypanosoma. These parasites are transmitted to humans ...
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WHO applauds Guinea's success in eradicating human African trypanosomiasis
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis ...
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Guinea joins Ghana, Chad and others in the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis
Guinea has officially joined Ghana, Togo, Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, and Chad in eliminating human ...
WHO Chief Congratulates Guinea For Eliminating Human Sleeping Sickness
( 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 ...
China Internet Information Center12d
Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness as a public health problem
CONAKRY, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, according to the World ...