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 ...
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‘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 ...
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Guinea Successfully Eliminates Human African Trypanosomiasis AKA Sleeping Sickness: WHO Report
Guinea, a country in West Africa has successfully eradicated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) ...
Guinea eliminates sleeping sickness as a public health problem
Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis commonly known as sleeping sickness as a public health problem according ...
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Guinea Eliminates Human African Trypanosomiasis As a Public Health Problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis ...
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Guinea Eliminates Sleeping Sickness as Public Health Threat
The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a ...
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Sleeping sickness eliminated as public health problem in Guinea
International: The disease, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is spread by infected tsetse flies and is ...
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WHO Delivers Safer Treatment for African Sleeping Sickness
In a major breakthrough for rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis (r-HAT) treatment, in August 2024 WHO recommended fexinidazole to replace ...
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Guinea: Guinea strengthens sleeping sickness detection with blood tests in Yind
The National Program for the Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases has launched a blood testing campaign to detect Human ...
WHO congratulates Guinea on eliminating human sleeping sickness
General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has extended his congratulations to Guinea for successfully eliminating human African ...
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 ...