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

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

African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is a disease caused by a parasite and spread by the tsetse fly in sub-Saharan Africa. Infections begin with mild to moderate symptoms like fever and ...

IT is not always possible to contemplate with such pleasurable anticipatican a series of Government publications such as those dealing with varied aspects of trypanosomiasis in Central Africa-a ...

a country in West Africa has successfully eradicated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) disease which is also known as sleeping sickness. What is sleeping sickness?

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

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the pathogen ...

The country’s elimination of human African trypanosomiasis brings the total to 55 countries that have eliminated at least one ...

The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a neglected tropical disease. This is the first neglected tropical disease ...

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

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein complex, potentially paving the way for novel drug discovery in the future.

It is also used to diagnose malaria and neglected diseases such as leishmaniasis, and human African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness. Eiken developed these tests with FIND ...