HAT MEPP News
Working Together Towards HAT Elimination: Highlights from 2024-2026
After a quiet period on the news feed, we wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on a busy two years of activity across the HAT MEPP project. From C么te d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Guinea, Chad and Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to international meetings in the USA and capacity-building activities at 糖心TV, the team has continued to work closely with national programmes, researchers and global partners to support evidence-based decision-making for the elimination of gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (gHAT).
Ching-I Huang attends the PNLTHA-DRC Partners Meeting in Kinshasa
Ching-I, one of our modelling post-doctoral researchers, made a flying visit last week to Kinshasa to attend the National Sleeping Sickness Control Programme Partner's meeting, during which she presented on behalf of the HAT MEPP team and caught up with several of the team's collaborators in the process.
HAT MEPP team visit PNLTHA partners in Guinea
Last week the team visited the national sleeping sickness team in Guinea to discuss their fantastic work as they aim to eliminate sleeping sickness in the country and how modelling can work alongside them to help support future decision-making.