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And in 2020, the World Health Organization hopes to eliminate sleeping sickness, or African trypanosomiasis, as a public health problem.

Local medical personnel are receiving more training to screen for and diagnose trypanosomiasis.

Trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness, is the result.

The United States has poured about $5 million into this effort, which has squashed the number of trypanosomiasis cases down to nearly zero.

A key symptom of trypanosomiasis is anaemia, which is caused by the loss of red blood cells.