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 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 ...

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 ...

And, although they don’t know it yet, what they’re about to do — placing a kind of blue target to lure and kill the tsetse fly — will greatly contribute to changing the course of sleeping sickness in ...