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

In a major breakthrough for rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis (r-HAT) treatment, in August 2024 WHO recommended fexinidazole to replace ...

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

But now, thanks to a combination of non-profit researchers and African public-health workers, there are signs of progress ...

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

By Sharon Atieno Guinea has eeliminated the human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem.It has managed to control the gambiense form of the disease to below the ...

Conakry: Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is ... The disease, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is spread by infected tsetse flies and is endemic in sub-Saharan ...

The National Program for the Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases has launched a blood testing campaign to detect Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly known as sleeping sickness. Camera: ...

Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis commonly known as sleeping sickness as a public health problem according ...

Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) 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 ...