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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WHO Delivers Safer Treatment for African Sleeping Sickness
In a major breakthrough for rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis (r-HAT) treatment, in August 2024 WHO recommended fexinidazole to replace ...
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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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Niger becomes the first African country to eliminate river blindness
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).
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Medical news in brief: Sickle cell treatment, prostate cancer, patient complaints, and other stories
Sarah Benn loses suspension appeal The retired GP and climate activist Sarah Benn lost her High Court appeal against a misconduct finding and suspension by a medical practitioners’ tribunal over her ...
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Starting New Year as world strives after global public health, wellness standards
The WHO list of NTDs includes Buruli ulcer (skin disease), Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), dengue and ... (caused by consuming contaminated food), human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping ...
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Hope rises as Guinea eliminates its first neglected tropical disease
The country’s elimination of human African trypanosomiasis brings the total to 55 countries that have eliminated at least one ...
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Eastern and Southern African leaders hold unprecedented summit to seek way out of Congo conflict
Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...