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Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) is a neglected tropical disease, better known as sleeping sickness.
Transmitted to humans by the tsetse fly, it causes, in addition to sleep disorders, crises of extreme violence and can lead to death. It is therefore essential to be correctly diagnosed and to have access to treatment. It occurs exclusively in 36 countries in sub-Saharan Africa where tsetse flies are found. Today, there are only a few risk areas left in very remote places. Between 2015 and 2019, only nine cases of trypanosomiasis were reported by Ivorian researchers. But the fight is not completely over. Where are the searches?
At the end of the program we take stock of the 11th edition of the AFRAVIH Conference which has just taken place in Marseille from 6 to 9 April. We talk about it Pr Christine Fold, Professor of infectious disease atPitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Parisand President of theAFRAVIH.