Civil unrest in key endemic regions, such as the Central African Republic and southwestern Cameroon, has hindered disease ...

A comprehensive strategy that combines pharmacological advances, vector control, public outreach to raise awareness and ...

Sleeping sickness is no longer a health threat in Guinea, which may be a tipping point in the continent’s efforts to beat the ...

Sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which is generally fatal without treatment, has been eliminated as a public health ...

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 ...

The World Health Organization has congratulated Guinea for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness - a ...

Guinea has eliminated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis commonly known as sleeping sickness as a public health problem according ...

The National Program for the Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases has launched a blood testing campaign to detect Human ...

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 ...

Between 1916 and 1930, an epidemic of Sleeping Sickness swept the globe, killing over half a million people. Discover the story of this forgotten disease and its devastating impact.

General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has extended his congratulations to Guinea for successfully eliminating human African ...