Barrie ROONEY, a laboratory scientist from County Leitrim, Ireland swapped her lecturing job in Kent, England to join MSF’s mobile sleeping sickness team in a remote corner of Democratic Republic of Congo. She describes days getting up before dawn to screen whole villages for the disease and nights...
National control activities crippled by lack of sustainable funding Advances in the development of new diagnostic tests and treatment bode well for the fight against human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), however, national control activities on the ground are crippled by a lack of sustainable funding...
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By Unni Karunakara, International President of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) Performing a spinal tap under field conditions is nerve-wracking. Sticking a needle into someone’s spine to extract spinal fluid is painful and risky and that’s just the doctor’s perspective. But it’s also something that...
