The elimination of human African trypanosomiasis is in sight: Report from the third WHO stakeholders meeting on elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis

摘要

In 2012, the World Health Organisation (WHO) set out a roadmap for the control, elimination, or eradication of 17 neglected tropical diseases by 2020 [1]. Many were skeptical aboutthe achievability of such goals. Now, still two years away from that end point, good news isemerging for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, causedby the tsetse-fly?transmitted protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense in West andCentral Africa [2]. The Rhodesiense form of the disease is being pursued under a separateprogramme.