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

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 ...

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

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?

T he World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. This form of human African trypanosomiasis ...

Researchers say if their results are confirmed through further study they are optimistic the approach could be used to treat chronic infections for the first time.

Sarah Benn loses suspension appeal The retired GP and climate activist Sarah Benn lost her High Court appeal against a misconduct finding and suspension by a medical practitioners’ tribunal over her ...

Niger became the first African country to eliminate the parasitic infection onchocerciasis, also known as river blindness, and the fifth worldwide, according to World Health Organisation (WHO).

Our study thus confirmed what was found in people of African descent in the US: the genetic origin underpinning the excess ...

Last year we certified seven countries for the elimination of neglected tropical diseases: Brazil, Chad, India, Jordan, Pakistan, Timor Leste and Viet Nam; And just last week, we certified Guinea for ...

Over the past decade, the pharmaceutical industry has been steadily increasing its investment in lifestyle drugs (see next page). Although this effort is geared more toward capturing revenue from ...