Sleeping sickness has been killing people across Africa for generations. A disease with no vaccine, spread by the bite of a tsetse fly, it was once treated with injections of an arsenic derivative, a cure that could be as dangerous as the illness itself. By 1998, it was infecting 40,000 people a year.
Last month, the single oral-dose medicine Acoziborole Winthrop (acoziborole) became the newest and simplest weapon against the disease when it was given the nod for approval by European regulators.
