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Confirmed: Why West Africans have a high risk of kidney disease
Kidney disease, leading to kidney failure, afflicts disproportionately more black people than white people. Thus, there is a huge burden of kidney healthcare costs among black people all over the ...
West Africans have a high risk of kidney disease – new study confirms genetic cause
Our study thus confirmed what was found in people of African descent in the US: the genetic origin underpinning the excess ...
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Sleeping sickness eliminated as public health problem in Guinea
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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Guinea Eliminated Gambiense Sleeping Sickness as a Public Health Problem
Guinea has officially eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced.
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WHO congratulates Guinea on eliminating human sleeping sickness
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has extended his congratulations to Guinea for successfully eliminating human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known ...
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 ...
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Guinea has wiped out sleeping sickness – will the rest of Africa follow?
Across Africa, the disease had largely been controlled by the 1960s, with fewer than 5,000 cases each year. But a decade later sleeping sickness came ... in Angola, South Sudan, and the Democratic ...
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Guinea Eradicates Sleeping Sickness as Health Threat
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by infected tsetse flies. Symptoms include fever, headaches, joint pain and, in advanced stages, ...
The Star15d
Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness as public health problem
Guinea's Minister of Health and Public Hygiene Dr Oumar Diouhé BAH said the elimination of sleeping sickness is the result ... Regional Director for Africa Dr Matshidiso Moeti noted that the ...