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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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) ...
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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 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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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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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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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 ...
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 ...
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Guinea has wiped out sleeping sickness – will the rest of Africa follow?
BRENT STIRTON After carrying out painful lumbar punctures – a spinal tap was then the only means of diagnosis – doctors found the group were suffering from sleeping sickness, or human African ...