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Challenges of controlling sleeping sickness in areas of violent conflict: experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Overview of attention for article published in Conflict and Health, May 2011
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Title
Challenges of controlling sleeping sickness in areas of violent conflict: experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Published in
Conflict and Health, May 2011
DOI 10.1186/1752-1505-5-7
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Jacqueline Tong, Olaf Valverde, Claude Mahoudeau, Oliver Yun, François Chappuis

Abstract

Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a fatal neglected tropical disease if left untreated. HAT primarily affects people living in rural sub-Saharan Africa, often in regions afflicted by violent conflict. Screening and treatment of HAT is complex and resource-intensive, and especially difficult in insecure, resource-constrained settings. The country with the highest endemicity of HAT is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which has a number of foci of high disease prevalence. We present here the challenges of carrying out HAT control programmes in general and in a conflict-affected region of DRC. We discuss the difficulties of measuring disease burden, medical care complexities, waning international support, and research and development barriers for HAT.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 3 3%
United States 1 1%
Brazil 1 1%
Unknown 88 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 23%
Researcher 17 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 11%
Student > Bachelor 10 11%
Other 5 5%
Other 16 17%
Unknown 14 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 24 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 13 14%
Social Sciences 13 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 6 6%
Psychology 4 4%
Other 18 19%
Unknown 15 16%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 January 2023.
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#6,087,321
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#425
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#33,691
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#2
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