The "Stamp Out Sleeping sickness" (S.O.S.) Initiative

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 existing strains of human sleeping sickness (Rhodesiense and Gambiense) threatened to converge.

This could have had a catastrophic effect for the already stretched local health services, as well as for the rest of Africa. The local health authorities believe that was the two diseases to over-lap, treatment would be next to impossible due to the difficulty to accurately diagnose in these areas with limited and stretched health resources.

Download the SOS presskit 2010.