Sleeping sickness is a lethal disease which affects humans and animals in rural Africa and has negative consequences for the economic development in the region.

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The Stamp Out Sleeping sickness (SOS) campaign is a public private partnership launched in Kampala, Uganda in October 2006. This partnership was formed in response to an emergency situation arising in a number of districts in Northern Uganda where the two strains of Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) - also known as "sleeping sickness"- threaten to converge.

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NEWS

Stamp Out Sleeping sickness (S.O.S.) initiative highlighted at WHO Third International Conference on Neglected Zoonotic

Posted 2010-11-30

At the WHO Third International Conference on Neglected Zoonotic Diseases held on November 23/24 2010, Dr. Anthony Mbonye, the Commissioner of Health Services in Uganda praised the SOS initiative as an excellent example of an “One Health” approach, where experts from the animal, human and public health sectors have worked together to control trypanosomiasis or sleeping sickness.

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The Observer - Animal Health: Poverty exacerbates zoonotic diseases

Posted 2010-08-04

I once heard a seasoned politician in Uganda tell a gathering that being poor is next to sin and that we should be prosecuting the lazy people keeping this country in poverty. I thought this was very harsh. Poor people often get trapped in a never ending cycle of problems which in some sections is known as “the devil’s circle of poverty.”

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SOS consortium holds empowerment meetings with spray persons

Posted 2010-06-17

The most active of the so called spray persons (those offering spraying of animals on commercial terms to farmers in the area) were in April 2010 called together for meetings geared towards empowering them to reach out to treating even more cattle and also other livestock. With support provided by IKARE and CEVA, over 75 spray persons have now been equipped with product knowledge and strategies that could enable them to individually spray more than 1,000 cattle per month.

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