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).

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

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

But now, thanks to a combination of non-profit researchers and African public-health workers, there are signs of progress ...

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 ...

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 ...

US military strikes Islamic State operatives in Somalia, the first attack in the African country during Trump's new term.

The National Program for the Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases has launched a blood testing campaign to detect Human ...

Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis commonly known as sleeping sickness as a public health problem according ...

Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem.

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...