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How Sleeping Sickness can be eradicated

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Interview with John Kabayu, African Union & Joseph Ndung'u, FIND

Sleeping Sickness is a tropical disease that continues to kill people in sub-Saharan Africa. But as John Kabayu of the African Union & FIND's Joseph Ndung'u tell us, the disease can be eradicated. They talk to Global Health TV about why so many cases of Sleeping Sickness go unreported and why they believe a new rapid test that can be used in non-clinical environments might hold the answer.

More information: http://www.finddiagnostics.org/