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Sustained decline in sleeping sickness cases puts elimination within reach

WHO-NEWSHUNDS
Countries endemic for human African trypanosomiasis, HAT (also known as sleeping sickness) continue to report fewer cases, indicating that the disease is well on course for elimination as a public health problem by the end of this year. Latest data show only 980 cases were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2019 which include the numbers for both the rhodesiense and gambiense forms of the disease.