The Angolan government aims to eliminate trypanosomiasis or sleeping disease, a senior public health official said here on Monday.
Vatunga Gedeao, assistant director of the Angola National Institute of Combat and Control to Trypanosomiasis (ICCT), told reporters that the government wishes to achieve 80 percent coverage in the fight against the disease by the year 2012.
According to the health official, public health authorities across the country now cover only 10 percent of the sleeping disease areas.
Under the government's fight against trypanosomiasis program, he said the ICCT plans to increase its 10 percent coverage to 27.5percent in 2009 as the first step.
He said the ICCT foresees a 70 percent reduction of the incidence of trypanosomiasis until 2012.
The official called for the need for more financial, human and technical resources as well as funds for mobile teams and medicines to realize the goal of eliminating the sleeping disease in the country eventually.
Source: Xinhua
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