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 ...

Chad has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis, a fly-borne tropical disease also known as sleeping sickness, the World Health Organization recently announced. The elimination marks a milestone for ...

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) said ...

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 ...

Researchers are working to find the fastest way possible to treat and cure human African trypanosomiasis, long referred to as sleeping sickness. Human African trypanosomiasis, or HAT, is a tropical ...

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 ...

A multi-center, open-level, phase II/III clinical trial has recently been conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the oral antimicrobial drug acoziborole in patients with human African ...

LSTM's Dr. Jennifer Lord is first author on a paper looking at the impact of climate change on the vectors of sleeping sickness in Africa. The study, published in PLOS Medicine, is based on 27 years ...