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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At its core is the principle of self-reliance. African countries must strengthen their own research capabilities by investing in local laboratories, biobanks, genomic surveillance systems, and, ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

Sleeping sickness eliminated as public health problem in Guinea The disease, also known as Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is spread by infected tsetse flies and is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa.

Guinea, a country in West Africa has successfully eradicated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) disease which is also known as sleeping sickness, says WHO.

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 ...

HEALTH East African sleeping sickness in Zambia and Zimbabwe Prisca Dali,14, who was diagnosed with Human African Trypanosomiasis after being ill for 4 years, has her blood drawn during an Human ...

Sleeping sickness, also known as human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is a deadly tropical disease spread by the tsetse fly. It primarily affects rural communities in East, West, and Central Africa.