Today a Sleeping Sickness Programme team is in in Douprou to test the entire village for sleeping sickness, following the identification of a case] It was then doctors replaced melarsoprol with a new drug called NECT.
Today a Sleeping Sickness Programme team is in in Douprou to test the entire village for sleeping sickness, following the identification of a case] ‘Unfortunately I lost two patients this way when I worked in the village.
Vector control of the tsetse fly is one of the main pillars of the Guinean sleeping sickness elimination programme and a huge factor in the national success story of combatting sleeping sickness.]
In the beige hat, Bruno Bucheton Research Fellow, Research Institute for Development, with the grey hat Dr Moīse Kagbadouno, National Sleeping Sickness Program Entomologist, Guinea, and in the blue hat Jean-Mathieu Bart, Research Fellow, Research Institute for Development.
This small, temporary settlement is emblematic of the challenges the Sleeping Sickness Programme of Guinea and the IRD faced in reaching small, often mobile groups of people moving in and out of the mangrove.]
