The Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis: a contribution to global mapping of neglected tropical diseases

Simarro, Pere P; Cecchi, Giuliano; Paone, Massimo; Franco, José R; Diarra, Abdoulaye; Ruiz, José A; Fèvre, Eric M; Courtin, Fabrice; Mattioli, Raffaele C; Jannin, Jean G

doi:10.1186/1476-072X-9-57

International Journal of Health Geographics

Table 1 T. b. gambiense Sleeping Sickness: new cases reported between 2000 and 2009

From: The Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis: a contribution to global mapping of neglected tropical diseases

Country	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	Total
Angola	4,546	4,577	3,621	3,115	2,280	1,727	1,105	648	517	247	22,383
Benin¹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burkina Faso²	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cameroon³	27	14	32	33	17	3	15	7	13	24	185
Central African Republic⁴	988	718	572	539	738	666	460	654	1,194	1,054	7,583
Chad	153	138	715	222	483	190	276	97	196	510	2,980
Congo⁵	111	894	1,005	717	873	398	300	189	182	87	4,756
Côte d'Ivoire⁶	188	92	97	68	74	42	29	13	14	8	625
Democratic Republic of the Congo	16,975	17,322	13,853	11,481	10,369	10,269	8,023	8,162	7,326	7,183	110,963
Equatorial Guinea	16	17	32	23	22	17	13	15	11	7	173
Gabon⁷	45	30	26	26	49	53	31	30	24	14	328
Gambia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Ghana	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Guinea⁸	52	72	132	130	95	94	48	69	90	79	861
Guinea-Bissau	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Liberia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Mali⁹	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niger	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Nigeria	14	14	26	31	10	21	3	0	0	0	119
Senegal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Sierra Leone	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0
Sudan¹⁰	1,801	1,919	3,121	3,061	1,742	1,853	789	469	623	376	15,754
Togo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Uganda¹¹	948	310	604	517	378	311	290	120	198	99	3,775
Total reported	25,865	26,117	23,836	19,963	17,130	15,644	11,382	10,473	10,388	9,688	170,486

"-", no data reported
"0", no cases reported despite active and passive surveillance is in place
For countries in italics (Angola and Democratic Republic of the Congo) data processing is still in progress.
1 Data for Benin include revisions of previously published figures [27, 28], Suspected cases reported between 2000 and 2003 were not confirmed by verification and follow-up missions [29].
2 Data for Burkina Faso include revisions of previously published figures [27, 28]. Cases reported from Burkina Faso between 2000 and 2004 have been labelled as "transboundary" and subsequently attributed to Côte d'Ivoire, the country of infection [29].
3 Previously published number of cases from Cameroon in 2001 [27, 28] has been revised to include one case "exported" to Germany.
4 Data for Central African Republic include revisions of previously published figures for the years from 2001 to 2003 [27, 28]. Revisions arose from a re-assessment of the epidemiological data, including ward and laboratory books, reports of active case-finding surveys and "exported" cases.
5 Data for Congo include revisions of previously published figures for the years 2003 and 2004 [27, 28]. Revised figures include cases diagnosed by NGOs.
6 Data for Côte d'Ivoire include revisions of previously published figures for the years 2000 to 2005 [27, 28]. Revisions arose from a re-assessment of the epidemiological data, including ward and laboratory books, reports of active case-finding surveys and "transboundary" cases diagnosed in Burkina Faso.
7 Previously published number of cases from Gabon in 2002 and 2004 [27, 28] have been revised to include cases "exported" to France and Italy.
8 Data for Guinea include revisions of previously published figures for the years from 2002 to 2004 [27, 28]. Revisions arose from a re-assessment of the epidemiological data, including ward and laboratory books, reports of active case-finding surveys and "exported" cases.
9 Data for Mali include revisions of previously published figures [27, 28]. Suspected cases reported between 2000 and 2002 were not confirmed by verification and follow-up missions [29].
10 Data for Sudan include revisions of previously published figures for the years 2000 to 2006 [27, 28]. Revisions arose from the re-assessment of transboundary cases and the inclusion of exported cases.
11 Data for Uganda include revisions of previously published figures for the years 2000 to 2006 [27, 28]. Revisions arose from the re-assessment of transboundary cases and the inclusion of exported cases.

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