A tsetse-borne illness meets elimination criteria

Publication date: WHO said representatives from 11 countries and areas in five regions took part in its workshop.

Publication date: participants considered education and training as part of safer traditional medicine service delivery.

Publication date: discussions covered policy frameworks, quality and safety alongside service delivery.

WHO validated elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem.

Screening and treatment helped reduce sleeping sickness in affected communities.

WHO recognized Guinea’s sustained national effort and local participation.

WHO confirmed elimination of onchocerciasis transmission in Niger.

Long-term treatment and surveillance helped stop transmission of river blindness.

Niger joined countries in the Americas that had already achieved WHO verification.

The WHO finding concerns transmission of onchocerciasis, not the end of all neglected diseases.