Zoekopdracht: subjects: "Health and Nutrition" |Titel||Human
African trypanosomiasis in a rural community, Democratic
Republic of Congo| |Auteurs||P. Lutumba, E. Makieya, A. Shaw, F.
Meheus, M. Boelaert| |Tijdschrift||Emerging Infectious Diseases|
|Organisatie||KIT - Royal Tropical Institute| |Onderwerp||Health
and Nutrition| |Trefwoorden||health, disease prevention and
control| |Regio's||Africa, Africa South of Sahara, Central
Africa| |Land||Democratic Republic of the Congo|
|Samenvatting||According to the World Health Organization, human
African trypanosomiasis (HAT) (sleeping sickness) caused the
loss of ≈1.5 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in
2002. This article describes the effect of HAT during 2000–2002
in Buma, a rural community near Kinshasa in the Democratic
Republic of Congo. Retrospective questionnaire surveys were used
to estimate HAT-related household costs and DALYs. The HAT
outbreak in Buma involved 57 patients and affected 47 (21%)
households. The cost to each household was equi