Introduction to the stamp out sleeping sickness project

Background to sleeping sickness in Uganda

The spread of sleeping sickness in Uganda

New initiatives

Communication of research to communities and policy makers

Introduction to the Stamp out sleeping sickness project

Sleeping sickness is caused by two forms of a parasite found throughout Africa and which, in Uganda, has used the cattle population as a reservoir.  The tsetse fly passes the parasite to the human.  The disease is hard to detect and expensive and difficult to treat, often leading to death. 

Members of the Centre for Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh are working, as part of an ambitious public-private partnership which aims to ultimately stamp out Sleeping Sickness from south east Uganda.

The first phase of the ‘Stamping Out Sleeping Sickness’ campaign brings together disease control professionals, researchers and students from Uganda and the UK and local livestock owners.  This campaign has received support, financial and in-kind from the French veterinary pharmaceutical company CEVA Santé Animal and IK Investment Partners. Together with research inputs from the World Health Organisation, The Wellcome Trust and DFID Animal Health Programme SOSs represents a combined investment of more than US$900,000. 

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