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    Challenges of controlling sleeping sickness in areas of violent conflict: experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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    Authors
    Tong, J
    Valverde, O
    Mahoudeau, C
    Yun, O
    Chappuis, F
    Affiliation
    Médecins Sans Frontières, Rue de Lausanne 78, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland. jacquitong@yahoo.co.uk.
    Issue Date
    2011-05-26
    
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    Conflict and Health
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    Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a fatal neglected tropical disease if left untreated. HAT primarily affects people living in rural sub-Saharan Africa, often in regions afflicted by violent conflict. Screening and treatment of HAT is complex and resource-intensive, and especially difficult in insecure, resource-constrained settings. The country with the highest endemicity of HAT is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has a number of foci of high disease prevalence. We present here the challenges of carrying out HAT control programmes in general and in a conflict-affected region of DRC. We discuss the difficulties of measuring disease burden, medical care complexities, waning international support, and research and development barriers for HAT.
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    BioMed Central
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10144/214529
    DOI
    10.1186/1752-1505-5-7
    PubMed ID
    21615932
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    http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/5/1/7
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    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1752-1505
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1186/1752-1505-5-7
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