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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 (IRD ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...