The cost of sleeping sickness vector control in Yasa Bonga, a health district in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

ABSTRACT: Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT), a neglected tropical disease caused by a parasite transmitted by tsetse flies, once inflicted over 30,000 annual cases and resulted in an estimated half a million deaths in the late twentieth century. An international gHAT control program has reduced cases to under 1,000 annually, encouraging the World Health Organization to target the elimination of gHAT transmission by 2030. This requires adopting innovative disease control approaches in foci where transmission persists. Since the last decade, case detection and treatment, the mainstay of controlling the disease, is supplemented by vector control using Tiny Targets, small insecticide-treated screens, which attract and kill tsetse. The advantages of Tiny Targets lie in their relatively low c

SUBMITTER: Snijders R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11666030 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature