The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

The first all-oral treatment for a deadly strain of sleeping sickness, human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is now available free of charge in eastern and southern Africa, where the disease is ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. Senegal ...

While elimination of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)—also known as sleeping sickness—is within reach across the continent, AAT remains a significant burden, with an estimated annual loss ...

Here we use cryogenic electron microscopy to determine the structure of TbAQP2 from Trypanosoma brucei, bound to either the substrate glycerol or to the sleeping sickness drugs, pentamidine or ...

Trachoma, a bacterial eye infection that can lead to blindness if untreated, has plagued Senegalese communities for over a century.

The World Health Organisation has validated Senegal as having eliminated trachoma as a public health problem. The WHO, which disclosed this in a statement ...

For decades, sleeping sickness, a deadly neglected disease that affects the most isolated and underserved communities in rural Africa, has claimed countless lives and placed a heavy burden on those ...

REUTER'S Agency announces that, at the invitation of the Colonial Office, a conference of various African colonies and protectorates has been summoned to discuss concerted international measures ...

The Duke of Edinburgh has said it is a “great honour” to be formally inducted into the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Edward was ...

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