Impact of a national tsetse control programme to eliminate Gambian sleeping sickness in Uganda: a spatiotemporal modelling study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tsetse flies (Glossina) transmit Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, which causes gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT). As part of national efforts to eliminate gHAT as a public health problem, Uganda implemented a large-scale programme of deploying Tiny Targets, which comprise panels of insecticide-treated material which attract and kill tsetse. At its peak, the programme was the largest tsetse control operation in Africa. Here, we quantify the impact of Tiny Targets and environmental changes on the spatial and temporal patterns of tsetse abundance across North-Western Uganda.

Methods

We leverage a 100-month longitudinal dataset detailing Glossina fuscipes fuscipes catches from monitoring traps between October 2010 and December 2019 wit

SUBMITTER: Longbottom J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11529777 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature