Measuring elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: a comparison of deceptively different metrics.

ABSTRACT: Modelling is an effective and widely used tool for predicting the future trajectory of infectious diseases. One of its strengths is its ability to measure and predict metrics that are unobservable in real life, such as the true prevalence, or when infection events occur. Policy goals, on the other hand, must necessarily be based on observable metrics in order to be verifiable. The WHO has targeted gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT) for elimination of transmission (EoT) by 2030. In order to verify this, the WHO HAT Elimination Technical Advisory Group (HAT-e-TAG) has recently defined the country-level indicator for EoT as 5 years of no new locally-infected reported cases, along with a sufficient level of surveillance. While this indicator is a useful and concrete metric that can

SUBMITTER: Sutherland SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12771873 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature