The International Scientific Council for Trypanosomosis Research and Control holds it’s 34th Conference to review and recommend control approaches for sleeping sickness and Nagana Livingstone - Zambia 11th September 2017
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Abstract
To address sleeping sickness, Nagana (trypanosomiasis in cattle) and the vector that transmits the diseases, stakeholders comprising disease control workers and scientists from AU Members States, researchers and scientists from universities in Africa and other parts of the world and other organisation working on the disease in human and animals and the tsetse fly are meeting in Livingstone - Zambia to promote information sharing on the problem of tsetse, human and animal trypanosomiasis, review
control strategies and recommend appropriate approaches in research and control.
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The threat that tsetse and trypanosomiasis (T&T) pose was recognized at the turn of the 20th century by
the African Heads of State and Governments when, at their meeting in Lome in 2000, drew attention to the seriousness of the T&T problem as one of Africa’s greatest constraints to socio-economic development, that severely affects human and livestock health, limits land use, cause poverty and perpetuates underdevelopment on the continent.