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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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Hope rises as Guinea eliminates its first neglected tropical disease
The country’s elimination of human African trypanosomiasis brings the total to 55 countries that have eliminated at least one ...
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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 ...
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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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 African trypanosomiasis as a public health issue. This achievement was ...
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Guinea Eliminates Sleeping Sickness
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 ...