by Valverde Mordt O. Bulletin of the Netherlands Society for Tropical Medicine and International Health 2020:6-8.
Summary: Sleeping sickness is on the verge of elimination due to collective case detection and treatment efforts by many stakeholders, coordinated by the WHO and led by national control programmes in the field. Because of rigorous research carried out in endemic areas under difficult conditions, the management of sleeping sickness has changed considerably over the years with old, toxic, and intravenous drugs being replaced by patient-friendly regimens with safe, oral short-course drugs. This review describes the clinical features, history, case detection, diagnosis, and treatment of sleeping sickness.