2024
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0012111
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The elimination of human African trypanosomiasis: Monitoring progress towards the 2021–2030 WHO road map targets

Jose R. Franco,
Gerardo Priotto,
Massimo Paone
et al.

Abstract: Background Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a neglected tropical disease that usually occurs in rural areas in sub-Saharan Africa. It caused devastating epidemics during the 20th century. Sustained, coordinated efforts by different stakeholders working with national sleeping sickness control programmes (NSSCPs) succeeded in controlling the disease and reducing the number of cases to historically low levels. In 2012, WHO targeted the elimination of the disease as a public health problem by 2020. This goal… Show more

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“…The disease in mammalian hosts manifests in two stages, the hemolymphatic and meningoencephalitic stages. While over the last decade there has been a steady decline in the number of sleeping sickness cases reported in sub-Saharan Africa (Franco et al 2024; 2022)(Dickie et al 2020) HAT continues to be a public health concern in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the efforts to control the disease there are still sporadic epidemics such as the unexpected outbreaks of Acute HAT in Malawi in 2019-2020 (Nambala et al 2022) and Ethiopia in 2022 (Abera et al 2024).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The disease in mammalian hosts manifests in two stages, the hemolymphatic and meningoencephalitic stages. While over the last decade there has been a steady decline in the number of sleeping sickness cases reported in sub-Saharan Africa (Franco et al 2024; 2022)(Dickie et al 2020) HAT continues to be a public health concern in Sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the efforts to control the disease there are still sporadic epidemics such as the unexpected outbreaks of Acute HAT in Malawi in 2019-2020 (Nambala et al 2022) and Ethiopia in 2022 (Abera et al 2024).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%