Monitoring the elimination of human African trypanosomiasis at continental and country level: Update to 2018.

• Main Authors: José R Franco (Author), Giuliano Cecchi (Author), Gerardo Priotto (Author), Massimo Paone (Author), Abdoulaye Diarra (Author), Lise Grout (Author), Pere P Simarro (Author), Weining Zhao (Author), Daniel Argaw (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2020-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:In 2012 human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, was targeted for elimination as a public health problem, set to be achieved by 2020. The World Health Organization (WHO) provides here the 2018 update on the progress made toward that objective. Global indicator...