Prevention and control of malaria and sleeping sickness in Africa: where are we and where are we going?

ABSTRACT: The International Symposium on Malaria and Human African Trypanosomiasis: New Strategies for their Prevention & Control was held 7-8 October, 2010 in Cotonou, Benin with about 250 participants from 20 countries. This scientific event aimed at identifying the gaps and research priorities in the prevention and control of malaria and sleeping sickness in Africa and to promote exchange between North and South in the fields of medical entomology, epidemiology, immunology and parasitology. A broad range of influential partners from academia (scientists), stakeholders, public health workers and industry attempted the meeting and about 40 oral communications and 20 posters were presented by phD students and internationally-recognized scientists from the North and the South. Finally, a special awar

SUBMITTER: Corbel V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3065431 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature