But eight years after Mr Onivogui’s diagnosis. Guinea has hit a major milestone: sleeping sickness rates have dropped so low that the disease is no longer considered a health threat (there is ...

This is what happens when sleeping sickness is left untreated, and before it inevitably kills you. The disease was once ...

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 World ...

Sleeping sickness, or Human African trypanosomiasis, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea, with cases falling below one per 10,000 inhabitants in endemic areas.

When I joined Guinea’s National Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) Control Programme in its Ministry of Health and Public Hygiene in 2013, all I knew about sleeping sickness was what I’d read ...

What is sleeping sickness? The Human African Trypanosomiasis ... This disease was acknowledged by the WHO as a public health concern in Guinea. The sole type of human African trypanosomiasis ...

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 ...

As Guinea becomes the latest country to eliminate sleeping sickness, how close are we to defeating the disease completely? Also on the program, what does a massive shakeup at the US Agency for ...

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 ...

Guinea's Minister of Health and Public Hygiene Dr Oumar Diouhé BAH said the elimination of sleeping sickness is the result of many years of effort by the Guinean government, its partners and ...