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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Conakry: Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is ... The disease, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is spread by infected tsetse flies and is endemic in sub-Saharan ...

CONAKRY, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis, commonly known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, according to the World ...

What is sleeping sickness? The Human African Trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness, is a potentially fatal disease caused by parasites called Trypanosoma. These parasites are transmitted to humans ...

Guinea has officially eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem ... initially targeting the Boffa-East area. By ...

The other, Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, found in 13 countries in East and Southern Africa, accounts for the remaining 8 per cent of cases. To combat sleeping sickness, public health officials have ...

Across Africa, the disease had largely been controlled by the 1960s, with fewer than 5,000 cases each year. But a decade later sleeping sickness came roaring back, exploiting relaxed surveillance ...