Dr Wilfriend Mutombo used to be the only doctor in a village of 11,000 ridden with sleeping sickness infections. He would ...
Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease control efforts in the past ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
SLEEPING SICKNESS, or African lethargy, is a disease the history of which we can trace back no further than 100 years. The first description that we know of is that of Winterbottom, who ...
Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) remain a significant health burden in tropical and subtropical regions, with limited ...