February 07, 2025
Bulletin interne de l'Institut Pasteur
IRD, DNDi, Institut Pasteur de Guinée and the Institut Pasteur welcome the WHO validation for the elimination of sleeping sickness in Guinea
On January 31, Guinea celebrated the elimination of sleeping sickness (also known as human African trypanosomiasis - HAT) as a public health problem. Despite health crises such as the Ebola epidemic from 2013 to 2015 and the SARS-Cov2 pandemic, combined medical and entomological control strategies have enabled Guinea to pass below the threshold of elimination of the disease as a public health problem (less than one case per 10,000 inhabitants in the three endemic foci).