Sleeping sickness in West Africa (1906–2006): changes in spatial repartition and lessons from the past

@article{Courtin2008SleepingSI,
  title={Sleeping sickness in West Africa (1906–2006): changes in spatial repartition and lessons from the past},
  author={Fabrice Courtin and Vincent Jamonneau and G{\'e}rard Duvallet and A. Garcia and Bamoro Coulibaly and J. P. Doumenge and Gérard Cuny and Philippe Solano},
  journal={Tropical Medicine \& International Health},
  year={2008},
  volume={13}
}
Objective  To review the geography and history of sleeping sickness (Human African trypanosomiasis; HAT) over the past 100 years in West Africa, to identify priority areas for sleeping sickness surveillance and areas where HAT no longer seems active. 
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The relevance of the Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis for future monitoring, control and research activities is discussed and preliminary results for seven West African countries are presented.
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Sleeping sickness in the historical focus of forested Guinea: update using a geographically based method
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In an area of 2385 km2 with 1420,530 inhabitants distributed in 1884 settlements, 14 villages with a population of 11,236 inhabitants were identified as most at risk of HAT and selected for active screening and two sentinel sites were chosen to implement passive surveillance.
Sleeping Sickness in Liberia – A Historical Review
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[Population growth and global warming: impacts on tsetse and trypanosomoses in West Africa].
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The Human African Trypanosomiasis Control and Surveillance Programme of the World Health Organization 2000–2009: The Way Forward
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The World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Committee on HAT Control and Surveillance held in 1995, in consideration of the huge uncertainties between the reported cases and the factual field situation, estimated that the true number of cases was at least 10 times more than reported.
Challenges towards the elimination of Human African Trypanosomiasis in the sleeping sickness focus of Campo in southern Cameroon
The sleeping sickness focus of Campo lies along the Atlantic coast and extends along the Ntem River, which constitutes the Cameroonian and Equatorial Guinean border. It is a hypo-endemic focus with…
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