A recent report from the World Health Organisation confirmed that Guinea, a country in West Africa has successfully eradicated the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) disease which ...

African sleeping sickness (Human African Trypanosomiasis) is a tropical disease that is endemic in many areas of Sub-Saharan Africa, with a prevalence of around ~60 million people worldwide. In the ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In Africa, Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), better known as sleeping sickness, ...

Game parks in Tanzania have long been considered to be low-risk areas for African trypanosomiasis [3]). However, in February 2001, two index patients and seven additional European and South African ...

Researchers have turned a fungus into a disease-curing factory through modern genetic engineering and patience. The natural antibiotic is a promising cure for a neglected tropical disease called human ...

Sleeping sickness or Trypanosomiasis was first reported from Mali in North Western Africa. Nicknamed as African trypanosomiasis, this tropical disease can trigger life-threatening complications in the ...

African trypanosomiasis (also known as sleeping sickness) is a disease transmitted by tsetse flies and is fatal to humans and other animals; however, there is currently no vaccine, this disease is ...

Developed an affordable genetic diagnostic kit Enabled early diagnosis of tuberculosis and African trypanosomiasis Produced a practical proposition for developing countries There was a need to develop ...

A herdsman sprays cattle with insecticide to prevent tsetse fly infestation during the Kenya Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication Council visit to tsetse fly-prone areas in Kina, Isiolo county.

Certain regions of Eastern and Central Africa are affected by East African trypanosomiasis especially Botswana, Tanzania, Zaire, Kenya, Malawi,Zimbabwe, Ethiopia, and Uganda .It is caused by the ...