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LSTM team attend WHO stakeholders meeting on HAT elimination

08 aoû 2023

The LSTM tsetse team attended the 5th WHO stakeholders meeting on HAT elimination, during the meeting Dr Iñaki Tirados and Dr Karina Mondragon-Shem presented on LSTM's work to control tsetse vectors of Gambian and Rhodesian HAT.

Recent study: Evidence of the absence of human African trypanosomiasis in two northern districts of Uganda: Analyses of cattle, pigs and tsetse flies for the presence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense

21 nov 2020

LSTM’s Dr Lucas Cunningham recently published the results from his study looking for sleeping sickness parasites in livestock and tsetse flies in Uganda.

Recent study: Quantifying geographic accessibility to improve efficiency of entomological monitoring

05 oct 2020

LSTM's Joshua Longbottom recently published a paper describing a new method using measure of travel time to identify the most efficient locations for sampling tsetse flies.

Demonstrating the sustainability of capacity strengthening during a pandemic

01 oct 2020

LSTM’s Dr Iñaki Tirados and Dr Pierre Abomo report on the positive impact of capacity strengthening work in the DRC which has enabled tsetse control activities to continue during the covid-19 pandemic.

Recent study: Gambian human African trypanosomiasis in North West Uganda. Are we on course for the 2020 target?

14 aoû 2020

Dr Richard Selby's latest publication examines the prevalence of Gambian sleeping sickness in North West Uganda and asks whether the country is on course for elimination.

Latest study: Climate change and African trypanosomiasis vector populations in Zimbabwe's Zambezi Valley

23 oct 2018

LSTM’s Dr Jennifer Lord is first author on a paper looking at the impact of climate change on the vectors of sleeping sickness in Africa.

Trypa-No! Partnership will accelerate elimination of sleeping sickness in Africa

09 mai 2018

The Ugandan minister for Primary Health Care, the minister for Animal Husbandry and the minister for Northern Uganda, visiting the LSTM exhibition during the Tsetse Awareness day.

LSTM recognised for control of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) in Uganda

19 oct 2016

The north-western parts of Uganda has seen a dramatic decrease in cases of HAT, or sleeping sickness; from a reported 100 cases in 2010, to only four cases in 2016.

LSTM project Tiny Targets highlighted as a success in an open letter from the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

27 mai 2016

LSTM part of a partnership looking at new models to fight sleeping sickness in DRC

23 sep 2015

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