Following the request from Member Countries during the 83rd General Session of the World Assembly of the Delegates of the OIE (May 2015), the OIE Director General convened the first meeting of the ad hoc Group to develop a Terrestrial Animal Health Code chapter on African animal trypanosomoses. This first...

The 17th National PATTEC Coordinators’ meeting will be held from 26th – 28th November 2018 at Africa Union Commission Headquarters, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Participants will include National PATTEC Coordinators and focal points from African Countries affected by tsetse-transmitted trypanosomosis, representatives of international organizations, research institutions, private and public partners. [read more]...

An expert mission to Harare will be carried out to assist the Tsetse Control Unit in Zimbabwe in developing a national atlas for tsetse and animal trypanosomosis. The mission is jointly supported by the FAO and IAEA in the framework of PAAT.

WHO and FAO are jointly planning a training workshop on the utilisation of the Atlas of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), to be held from 11 to 14 June 2018 in Addis Ababa at FAO premises. The planned participants are ten (10) from five (5) endemic countries (i.e. Malawi, South Sudan,...

A training course will be organized by FAO and the National Institute for the Control and Eradication of Tsetse and Trypanosomosis (NICETT). Twenty-five (25) NICETT staff participants will be traineed, including representative from the NICETT Head Office in Kality, Addis Ababa, and the field stations in Arba Minch, Bedele, Dilla, Sodo, and Asossa....