Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis: the bumpy road to elimination.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT), a disease that has killed hundreds of thousands as recently as the 1990s, could be on the verge of elimination or even eradication. This review describes recent developments that give us reasons for optimism as well as some caveats.

Recent findings

New developments in diagnostic and vector control tools, and especially in treatment, make it possible to strive for elimination of transmission of gHAT by 2030, perhaps even eradication.

Summary

Gambiense human African trypanosomiasis is a deadly infectious disease affecting West and Central Africa, South Sudan and Uganda, and transmitted between humans by tsetse flies. The disease has caused several major epidemics, the latest one in the 1990s. Thanks to re

SUBMITTER: Hasker E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9553258 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature