PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases: The elimination of human African trypanosomiasis is in sight: Report from the third WHO stakeholders meeting on elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis
Michael P. Barrett, member of the Wellcome Centre for Molecular Parasitology and professor at the Institute of Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation at the University of Glasgow, discusses outcomes from the third WHO meeting of stakeholders on the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), otherwise known as sleeping sickness, and examines the progress made and remaining challenges of eliminating the disease (12/6).