Kenya’s Sleeping Sickness No Longer a Public Health Threat – What This Means

Nairobi — Kenya has officially eliminated Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem, a milestone that signals the disease is no longer a major threat to the population.

The validation by the World Health Organization (WHO) means that Kenya has successfully reduced cases of the deadly disease to extremely low levels, with no new locally transmitted cases reported in over a decade, and has robust systems in place to prevent its return.

While…