Predicting the impact of intervention strategies for sleeping sickness
In two high-endemicity health zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Abstract
Two goals have been set for Gambian human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), the first is to achieve elimination as a public health problem in 90% of foci by 2020, and the second is to achieve zero transmission globally by 2030. It remains unclear if certain HAT hotspots could achieve elimination as a public health problem by 2020 and, of greater concern, it appears that current interventions to control HAT in these areas may not be sufficient to achieve zero transmission by 2030. A mathematical model of disease dynamics was used to assess the potential impact of changing the intervention strategy in two high-endemicity health zones of Kwilu province, Democratic Republic of Congo. Six key strategies and twelve variations were considered which covered a range of recruitment strategies for screening and vector control.
This is a publication arising from the Zoonoses and Emerging Livestock Systems (ZELS) programme.
Citation
Rock K, Torr S, Lumbala C, Keeling M (2017). Predicting the impact of intervention strategies for sleeping sickness in two high-endemicity health zones of the Democratic Republic of Congo. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 11:e0005162.