Health

Combines forces of FAO, IAEA, WHO, AU/IBAR and other relevant stakeholders concerned with the tsetse and trypanosomiasis problem. Includes disease information and maps.

Article by Kitonga P Kiminyo, MD.

Chapter from a book on parasitic diseases with detailed information on the vector, the human disease and its prevention through control of tsetse flies.

Article by Dietmar Steverding summarising the history of this disease from prehistory to current developments, including the factors that determine its control, emergence and spread.

Article by Dietmar Steverding outlining the development of anti-sleeping sickness drugs from the discovery of the first bioactive lead compounds to the identification of more modern chemotherapeutic agents.

Classification, description and significance, genome structure, cell structure, metabolism and ecology.

Information about the East African and West African forms of Trypanosomiasis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.