Dr Wilfriend Mutombo used to be the only doctor in a village of 11,000 ridden with sleeping sickness infections. He would ...

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 ...

Guinea - January 30, 2025 The National Program ... to detect Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), commonly known as sleeping sickness. Camera: Diego Menjibar Reynes. Footage recorded on January ...

Conakry: Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health problem in Guinea, the French Research Institute for Development ...

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 ...

Guinea celebrates today the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis or HAT) as a public health problem Despite health crises such as the 2013-2015 Ebola ...

Guinea has officially joined Ghana ... Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, is a parasitic disease transmitted through the bite of infected tsetse flies.

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 ...

Guinea has wiped out sleeping sickness – will the rest of Africa follow? Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to ...