WHO certifies end of ‘public health problem’ in Cote d'Ivorie

According to WHO Africa, ‘robust control and surveillance measures, active (and passive) screening of people at risk and targeted vector control’ are largely responsible for the reduction in sleeping sickness cases, which used to cause hundreds of infections each year as late as the 1990s. Côte d’Ivoire now becomes the second country to have officially eliminated Human African trypanosomiasis, after Togo. Read More

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