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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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 ...
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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Why the last cases of sleeping sickness will be the hardest to eliminate
Of all the maladies his patients presented with, late-stage human African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, was among the diseases he dreaded the most. Caused by protozoan parasites ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Sleeping Sickness
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related ...
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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 ...
WHO congratulates Guinea on eliminating human sleeping sickness
General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has extended his congratulations to Guinea for successfully eliminating human African ...
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 ...