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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Guinea Eliminates Sleeping Sickness
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 ...
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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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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 ...
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Guinea Eradicates Sleeping Sickness as Health Threat
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health ...
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A gene expression panel for estimating age in males and females of the sleeping sickness vector Glossina morsitans.
Many vector-borne diseases are controlled by methods that kill the insect vectors responsible for disease transmission. Recording the age structure of vector populations provides information on ...
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 pathogen ...
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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 neglected ... African trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne parasitic ...
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Guinea Eliminates Human African Trypanosomiasis As a Public Health Problem
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by infected tsetse flies. Symptoms include fever, headaches, joint pain and, in advanced ...
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 ...