Background
Infection
EBOLA, INFECTION
Infection with the parasite Despite considerable challenges, Guinea implements an efficacious HAT control program based on medical interventions supplemented with vector control. Even during the Ebola epidemic outbreak in 2014–2016, the national HAT control program managed to deploy insecticide impregnated targets in Boffa, and limited parasite transmission to humans by reducing the tsetse fly vector density [While the most sensitive parasite detection techniques are routinely applied in Guinea [Within the framework of a multi-country diagnostic trial, the diagnostic performance of clinical signs and symptoms, of 3 RDTs and of serological and molecular reference laboratory tests on DBS was evaluated prospectively for diagnosis of HAT, in the context of passive screening in HAT endemic areas in Guinea.