With the intent of aiding efforts towards the elimination of the human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, FAO and WHO jointly held a training course for Eastern and Southern African countries. The training was aimed at country level health experts, and focused on the utilization of the...

The stakeholders workshop was organized by FAO and the Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Control Unit in Mali (CCLMT, Cellule de Coordination de Lutte contre les Mouches Tsé-tsé et les trypanosomoses animales, Direction Nationale des Services Vétérinaires, Ministère de l’Elevage et de la Pêche). Nineteen (19) participated, including the technical adviser of...

Trypanosoma brucei gambiense causes human African trypanosomiasis (HAT). Between 1990 and 2015, almost 440 000 cases were reported. Large-scale screening of populations at risk, drug donations, and efforts by national and international stakeholders have brought the epidemic under control with gambiense-HAT elimination as a public health problem for 2020, and...

African animal trypanosomosis is a debilitating tsetse-transmitted parasitic disease of sub-Saharan Africa. Therapeutic and prophylactic drugs were introduced more than 50 years ago, and drug resistance is increasingly reported. In a cross-sectional study, 467 cattle were microscopically screened for trypanosomes. Samples were collected in May–July 2014 from five villages (Botao,...

FAO/IAEA project successfully integrates insect birth control technique for thriving livestock sector. After a four-year eradication programme including nuclear techniques, the Niayes region of Senegal is now almost free of the tsetse fly, which used to decimate livestock. The tsetse fly is a bloodsucking insect that kills more than three...