Angola: Progress on sleeping sickness brings new challenges

International medical NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) handed over its final sleeping sickness project in Angola to the Health Ministry last week, having successfully contained and stabilised the disease. But medical staff from both MSF and the national Institute to Combat and Control Trypanosomiasis (ICCT), which will assume responsibility for the sleeping sickness project in Caxito, in the northern province of Bengo, fear the illness could again spiral out of control if the Angolan authorities fail to manage it tightly.