The Trypanosomiasis Hospital of Viana in the Angolan capital of Luanda is trying a new medicine named "dfmo" to treat patients afflicted with the sleeping sickness. Fortunately, initial results of the medicine proves promising.

The official Angola Press Agency said the new medicine is given with physiological solution of sodiumchloride and is less toxic than other treatments while able to cure in just 14 days

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate over $68.2 million to fight tropical diseases in the Third World.

The money will come in four grants, aimed at fighting hookworm, leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Researchers from the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology connected to the Free University of Brussels are making significant headway in fighting the deadly African sleeping sickness.

Researchers are using the human protein ApoL-1 along with a nanobody to kill the infection caused by pathogenic parasites, that the human body is powerless to fight