The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a neglected tropical disease. This is the first neglected tropical disease ...

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

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sleeping sickness is a vector-borne parasitic disease caused by infected tsetse flies. There are two forms of the disease: one caused by Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, found in 24 countries in West ...

combined medical and vector control strategies have enabled Guinea to reach the threshold of eliminating sleeping sickness as a public health problem (less than one case per 10,000 inhabitants in ...

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).

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 ...

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 ...

“[Sleeping sickness] is one of the worst diseases I ... that a disease is completely wiped out using only a treatment and vector control, and without the help of a vaccine.

As the MRI with its building sprawl over five acres, a stone’s throw from Borella junction, celebrates its 125th anniversary, ...

For humble families of miners, weavers and flower growers, life in their simple cottages in the rural village of Strathbungo was shaped by ...