Kenya declared free of sleeping sickness as public health problem

Public Health PS Mary Muthoni during the celebration on the elimination of the Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT) commonly known as sleeping sickness. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

Kenya has been officially validated by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as having eliminated human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), also known as sleeping sickness, as a public health problem.

This makes Kenya the second country in Africa, after Rwanda, to achieve this milestone and the tenth globally.