WHO officially validated Kenya for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) as a public health threat—making it the 10th country to reach this major milestone.
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Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem, making it the tenth country to reach t...
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August 8, 2025 at 3:13 PM
WHO officially validated Kenya for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) as a public health threat—making it the 10th country to reach this major milestone.
Read more: bit.ly/45r3KkK
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Good news in global health!
The World Health Organization congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. This is the first neglected tropical disease to be eliminated in the country.
More 👉🏽 www.who.int/news/item/29...
The World Health Organization congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. This is the first neglected tropical disease to be eliminated in the country.
More 👉🏽 www.who.int/news/item/29...
Guinea eliminates human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem.
www.who.int
January 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Good news in global health!
The World Health Organization congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. This is the first neglected tropical disease to be eliminated in the country.
More 👉🏽 www.who.int/news/item/29...
The World Health Organization congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem. This is the first neglected tropical disease to be eliminated in the country.
More 👉🏽 www.who.int/news/item/29...
Some #ShareGoodNewsToo from Derek Lowe today: a drug for sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) has been developed that cures the disease in a single treatment of three pills. Recently approved by the European Medicines Agency. www.science.org/content/blog...
March 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Some #ShareGoodNewsToo from Derek Lowe today: a drug for sleeping sickness (trypanosomiasis) has been developed that cures the disease in a single treatment of three pills. Recently approved by the European Medicines Agency. www.science.org/content/blog...
The elimination of an infectious disease is always a cause for celebration. Kenya has eliminated sleeping sickness as a public health problem. This the direct result of the years of work and the dedicated efforts of real life public health heroes.
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www.who.int/news/item/08...
Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem, making it the tenth country to reach t...
www.who.int
August 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The elimination of an infectious disease is always a cause for celebration. Kenya has eliminated sleeping sickness as a public health problem. This the direct result of the years of work and the dedicated efforts of real life public health heroes.
www.who.int/news/item/08...
www.who.int/news/item/08...
Great news in treatment of human African trypanosomiasis #IDSky
🚀 Huge news for people living with #sleepingsickness!
Acoziborole, a one-day, single-dose oral treatment developed with Sanofi, has received a positive opinion from @ema.europa.eu for the treatment of the most common form of sleeping sickness.
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Acoziborole, a one-day, single-dose oral treatment developed with Sanofi, has received a positive opinion from @ema.europa.eu for the treatment of the most common form of sleeping sickness.
👉 bit.ly/46ZFpEi
February 28, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Great news in treatment of human African trypanosomiasis #IDSky
With Guinea, 7 other countries have been validated by WHO for eliminating the gambiense form of sleeping sickness - or human African trypanosomiasis:
🙌🏾 Togo (2020)
🙌🏾 Benin (2021)
🙌🏾 Côte d’Ivoire (2021)
🙌🏾 Uganda (2022)
🙌🏾 Equatorial Guinea (2022)
🙌🏾 Ghana (2023)
🙌🏾 Chad (2024)
2/3
🙌🏾 Togo (2020)
🙌🏾 Benin (2021)
🙌🏾 Côte d’Ivoire (2021)
🙌🏾 Uganda (2022)
🙌🏾 Equatorial Guinea (2022)
🙌🏾 Ghana (2023)
🙌🏾 Chad (2024)
2/3
January 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
With Guinea, 7 other countries have been validated by WHO for eliminating the gambiense form of sleeping sickness - or human African trypanosomiasis:
🙌🏾 Togo (2020)
🙌🏾 Benin (2021)
🙌🏾 Côte d’Ivoire (2021)
🙌🏾 Uganda (2022)
🙌🏾 Equatorial Guinea (2022)
🙌🏾 Ghana (2023)
🙌🏾 Chad (2024)
2/3
🙌🏾 Togo (2020)
🙌🏾 Benin (2021)
🙌🏾 Côte d’Ivoire (2021)
🙌🏾 Uganda (2022)
🙌🏾 Equatorial Guinea (2022)
🙌🏾 Ghana (2023)
🙌🏾 Chad (2024)
2/3
god gives his most virulent trypanosomiasis to his tiredest sleepyheads
March 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
god gives his most virulent trypanosomiasis to his tiredest sleepyheads
Good news - after 76 yrs with no new drug for rhodiensese Human African Trypanosomiasis, @who.int has faciliated research, development & now delivery ofmore effective fexinidazole to replace suramin & melarsoprol. Huge benefit given harsh side effects of the latter.
www.who.int/news/item/07...
www.who.int/news/item/07...
WHO delivers fexinidazole to Malawi and Zimbabwe – a long-awaited safer treatment for rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis
In a major breakthrough for rhodesiense human African trypanosomiasis (r-HAT) treatment, in August 2024 WHO recommended fexinidazole to replace suramin and melarsoprol as the first-line treatment for ...
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April 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Good news - after 76 yrs with no new drug for rhodiensese Human African Trypanosomiasis, @who.int has faciliated research, development & now delivery ofmore effective fexinidazole to replace suramin & melarsoprol. Huge benefit given harsh side effects of the latter.
www.who.int/news/item/07...
www.who.int/news/item/07...
Good news! Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness www.who.int/news/item/08...
Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem, making it the tenth country to reach t...
www.who.int
August 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Good news! Kenya eliminated sleeping sickness www.who.int/news/item/08...
The outgoing director is a PhD microbiologist who studies the immune responses to human African trypanosomiasis.
August 29, 2025 at 5:13 AM
The outgoing director is a PhD microbiologist who studies the immune responses to human African trypanosomiasis.
Probably the most exciting news you'll read today. A single-dose oral treatment for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)--also known as sleeping sickness--has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
Single-dose treatment approved for sleeping sickness
Regulatory backing for acoziborole could simplify care in central and west Africa, where gambiense infections persist.
www.nature.com
March 10, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Probably the most exciting news you'll read today. A single-dose oral treatment for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)--also known as sleeping sickness--has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
July 13, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Scientists tested how the body processes acoziborole, a potential single-dose cure for sleeping sickness. It’s well absorbed and slowly cleared via the gut. A step forward in the fight against this deadly neglected disease. ⤵️ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Mass balance, pharmacokinetics, metabolism, and excretion of radiolabeled acoziborole, a potential novel treatment for human African trypanosomiasis, following single microtracer oral dose to humans |...
Acoziborole (SCYX-7158) is a first-in-class oxaborole 6-carboxamide derivative active
against Trypanosoma brucei (T.b.) gambiense and rhodesiense, the parasites responsible for human African trypanoso...
journals.asm.org
September 30, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Scientists tested how the body processes acoziborole, a potential single-dose cure for sleeping sickness. It’s well absorbed and slowly cleared via the gut. A step forward in the fight against this deadly neglected disease. ⤵️ journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
Today Kenya 🇰🇪 was declared free of African trypanosomiasis with the last locally acquired case in 2009.
It is the 10th country to eliminate this disease.
#IDSky
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It is the 10th country to eliminate this disease.
#IDSky
www.who.int/news/item/08...
August 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Today Kenya 🇰🇪 was declared free of African trypanosomiasis with the last locally acquired case in 2009.
It is the 10th country to eliminate this disease.
#IDSky
www.who.int/news/item/08...
It is the 10th country to eliminate this disease.
#IDSky
www.who.int/news/item/08...
Guinea has successfully eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) as a public health problem, joining 15 other African nations that have achieved this milestone. Success came through improved screening, better treatments, and strong community engagement.
Guinea eliminates human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) congratulates Guinea for eliminating the gambiense form of human African trypanosomiasis as a public health problem.
buff.ly
February 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Guinea has successfully eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) as a public health problem, joining 15 other African nations that have achieved this milestone. Success came through improved screening, better treatments, and strong community engagement.
I remember when they joked about studying the mating habit of the Tsetse Fly. Until they discovered the fatal sleeping sickness (African Trypanosomiasis) and now the five medications those studies brought about.
February 10, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I remember when they joked about studying the mating habit of the Tsetse Fly. Until they discovered the fatal sleeping sickness (African Trypanosomiasis) and now the five medications those studies brought about.
Some very good news for a time in #GlobalHealth when there's so much bad news 🙌🏼
www.who.int/news/item/08...
www.who.int/news/item/08...
Kenya achieves elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness as a public health problem
The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated Kenya as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) or sleeping sickness as a public health problem, making it the tenth country to reach t...
www.who.int
August 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Some very good news for a time in #GlobalHealth when there's so much bad news 🙌🏼
www.who.int/news/item/08...
www.who.int/news/item/08...
WHO-certified Tropical Diseases Eliminated in 2025
African Trypanosomiasis: 🇬🇳 🇰🇪
Malaria: 🇬🇪 🇸🇷 🇹🇱
MTCT HBV: 🇲🇻
Onchocerciasis: 🇳🇪
Trachoma: 🇧🇮🇪🇬🇲🇷 🇵🇬
#IDSky
African Trypanosomiasis: 🇬🇳 🇰🇪
Malaria: 🇬🇪 🇸🇷 🇹🇱
MTCT HBV: 🇲🇻
Onchocerciasis: 🇳🇪
Trachoma: 🇧🇮🇪🇬🇲🇷 🇵🇬
#IDSky
WHO-certified Neglected Tropical Diseases Eliminated in 2024
🇨🇻 🇪🇬-Malaria
🇧🇷 🇹🇱 - Lymphatic filariasis
🇯🇴-Leprosy
🇹🇩-African Trypanosomiasis
🇵🇰 🇮🇳 🇻🇳- Trachoma
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
#IDSky
🇨🇻 🇪🇬-Malaria
🇧🇷 🇹🇱 - Lymphatic filariasis
🇯🇴-Leprosy
🇹🇩-African Trypanosomiasis
🇵🇰 🇮🇳 🇻🇳- Trachoma
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
#IDSky
9 countries said goodbye to a devastating disease in 2024
Nine countries eliminated a disease in 2024. Here's how Pakistan pulled it off — fulfilling a young boy's dream of eliminating blindness caused by bacterial infections.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
WHO-certified Tropical Diseases Eliminated in 2025
African Trypanosomiasis: 🇬🇳 🇰🇪
Malaria: 🇬🇪 🇸🇷 🇹🇱
MTCT HBV: 🇲🇻
Onchocerciasis: 🇳🇪
Trachoma: 🇧🇮🇪🇬🇲🇷 🇵🇬
#IDSky
African Trypanosomiasis: 🇬🇳 🇰🇪
Malaria: 🇬🇪 🇸🇷 🇹🇱
MTCT HBV: 🇲🇻
Onchocerciasis: 🇳🇪
Trachoma: 🇧🇮🇪🇬🇲🇷 🇵🇬
#IDSky
A big welcome to everyone who has joined us for the @bspparasitology.bsky.social trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis meeting this week in the beautiful city of Ceske Budějovice!
September 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
A big welcome to everyone who has joined us for the @bspparasitology.bsky.social trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis meeting this week in the beautiful city of Ceske Budějovice!
Also hell yeah: we cured trypanosomiasis! (Now we just need to get the cure rolled out.)
March 16, 2026 at 9:51 PM
Also hell yeah: we cured trypanosomiasis! (Now we just need to get the cure rolled out.)
I congratulate the government and people of #Kenya on the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness.
Kenya joins the growing rank of countries freeing their populations of sleeping sickness, and bringing Africa one step closer to being free from neglected tropical diseases!
Kenya joins the growing rank of countries freeing their populations of sleeping sickness, and bringing Africa one step closer to being free from neglected tropical diseases!
August 9, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I congratulate the government and people of #Kenya on the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness.
Kenya joins the growing rank of countries freeing their populations of sleeping sickness, and bringing Africa one step closer to being free from neglected tropical diseases!
Kenya joins the growing rank of countries freeing their populations of sleeping sickness, and bringing Africa one step closer to being free from neglected tropical diseases!
Thérèse Tréfouël, French chemist. With husband, Jacques undertook cutting edge research creating drugs to treat syphilis, African trypanosomiasis, malaria. Then discovered sulfonamides antibiotics. 1/72 #WomenInSTEM proposed 2B added 2 #EiffelTower b #OTD 19 Jun 1892 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A...
June 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Thérèse Tréfouël, French chemist. With husband, Jacques undertook cutting edge research creating drugs to treat syphilis, African trypanosomiasis, malaria. Then discovered sulfonamides antibiotics. 1/72 #WomenInSTEM proposed 2B added 2 #EiffelTower b #OTD 19 Jun 1892 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A...