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Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Civil conflict and sleeping sickness in Africa in general and Uganda in particular. | Conflict and Health BioMed Central Open Access Review Civil conflict and sleeping sickness in Africa in general and Uganda in particular Lea Berrang Ford 1 2 Address 1Deptartment of Population Medicine University of Guelph Canada and 2233 Curzon Avenue Saint Lambert Quebec J4P 2V3 Canada Email Lea Berrang Ford - LeaBerrang@hotmail.com Corresponding author Published 29 March 2007 Conflict and Health 2007 1 6 doi 10.1186 1752-1505-1 -6 Received 31 October 2006 Accepted 29 March 2007 This article is available from http www.conflictandhealth.cOm content l l 6 2007 Berrang Ford licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http creativecommons.org licenses by 2.0 which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Conflict and war have long been recognized as determinants of infectious disease risk. Reemergence of epidemic sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa since the 1970s has coincided with extensive civil conflict in affected regions. Sleeping sickness incidence has placed increasing pressure on the health resources of countries already burdened by malaria HIV AIDS and tuberculosis. In areas of Sudan the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Angola sleeping sickness occurs in epidemic proportions and is the first or second greatest cause of mortality in some areas ahead of HIV AIDS. In Uganda there is evidence of increasing spread and establishment of new foci in central districts. Conflict is an important determinant of sleeping sickness outbreaks and has contributed to disease resurgence. This paper presents a review and characterization of the processes by which conflict has contributed to the occurrence of sleeping sickness in Africa. Conflict contributes to disease risk by affecting the transmission potential of sleeping sickness via economic impacts degradation of health systems and services .
