Sensing Sleeping Sickness: Local Symptom-Making in South Sudan

Resurgence of sleeping sickness in Southern Sudan

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, has been a public health problem in Sudan for much of the 20 century. Endemic foci of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense are found in southern Sudan in a belt bordering Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. Gambiense sleeping sickness runs a chronic clinical course and is invariably fatal if left untreated. The di...

Elimination of sleeping sickness in Uganda could be jeopardised by conflict in South Sudan.

Management of a sleeping sickness epidemic in Southern Sudan

An epidemic of human African trypanosomiasis, also called sleeping sickness, was identified in Tambura County, Southern Sudan in 1997. Implementation of a sleeping sickness control program by international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Tambura County resulted in a three-fold decrease in the incidence of sleeping sickness between 1997-1999. The sustainability of these interventions onc...

Making Federalism Work in South Sudan

Framing the Issue The Republic of South Sudan is comprised of three provinces—Bahl el Ghazal, Equatoria and Greater Upper Nile, which are subdivided into 10 states: Northern Bahr el Ghazal, Western Bahr el Ghazal, Warrap, Lakes (Bahr el Ghazal); Unity, Upper Nile, Jonglei (Greater Upper Nile); and Western Equatoria, Central Equatorial (which contains Juba, the national capital) and Eastern Equa...

Sleeping Sickness Wakes Again

Sleeping sickness of horses was, as reeentiy as the IQSO's, the most devastating livestock disease in the United States. Horses died by the hundreds of thousands in the Midwestern United States, in California, and along the Atlantic seaboard at a period which coincided with the beginning of the sharp decline in the use of horses on the farm. Losses were so severe in some areas that the inevitab...