All sleeping sickness articles

  • Tsetse fly
    Podcast

    Fexinidazole

    2020-05-29T15:22:00Z

     The World Health Organisation hope to eradicate sleeping sickness within our lifetimes. Jamie Durrani looks at a drug that may make it possible.

  • Trypanosoma brucei on red blood cells
    Research

    Elusive protein and key to many tropical diseases found after decades of searching

    2019-09-24T08:39:00Z

    Discovery offers powerful new target to treat trypanosome parasite illnesses that affect millions

  • Tsetse Fly
    Podcast

    Melarsoprol

    2019-02-07T14:20:00Z

    Cases of sleeping sickness – human African trypanosomiasis – are in decline, dropping 86% in Africa between 2000 and 2014. Gege Li explores the role that this toxic, arsenic-based medication has to play.