SIXTEEN African nations have brought their patients for treatment in Dar es Salaam major hospital in the past four years from March 2021 to March this year.The countries opted to bring their patients ...

Control of human African trypanosomiasis is based on case detection, treatment, and vector control. In the past decade, simple rapid diagnostic tests were introduced for gambiense human African ...

In a major breakthrough for rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis (r-HAT) treatment, in August 2024 WHO recommended fexinidazole to replace suramin and melarsoprol as the first-line treatment for ...

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness ... Advances in diagnostic techniques, treatment delivery, and consistent financial and technical backing from WHO and other partners ...

Without treatment, the disease is almost always fatal. The symptoms of African trypanosomiasis vary based on the stage of the untreated disease. The first stage of sleeping sickness generally involves ...

Sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis ... insomnia at night coupled with excessive daytime drowsiness. Without treatment, the condition leads to confusion, psychosis, aggressive behaviour ...

A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. Human African trypanosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease that is usually fatal without treatment ...

Treatment includes anti-protozoal agents. For a complete picture of African Trypanosomiasis’s pipeline drug market, buy the report here.