Thank you to the Côte d’Ivoire national sleeping sickness team PNETHA and the IRD team for hosting HAT MEPP’s group leader Kat Rock in Côte d’Ivoire in February 2022. Kat presented an update on HAT MEPP’s modelling progress followed by a series of very productive conversations with the teams on how to progress the Côte d’Ivoire transmission and health economic modelling. All in all, a very successful visit!

Great to see HAT MEPP's research being represented at the EPIDEMICS8 Conference (30 Nov – 3 Dec 2021) this week by our fantastic modellers Ron Crump and Ching-I Huang! Ching-I presented her work on Tuesday 30^th Nov on quantifying the impacts and cost-effectiveness of intensified interventions against sleeping sickness in the Mandoul focus of Chad and Ron will be presenting his work on Thursday 2^nd Dec on inferring missing screening data to uncover the dynamics of gHAT in Uganda today. Well done and good luck both!

Good luck to our HAT MEPP researchers Ron Crump, Maryam Aliee and Marina Antillon whose work is being showcased at the ASTMH 2021 virtual meeting (17 Nov - 21 Nov). Maryam Aliee will be presenting her research on estimating timelines to EoT for sleeping sickness and its measurement in the presence of possible cryptic human & animal reservoirs and Ron Crump will be presenting his research on mathematical modelling of sleeping sickness in northern Uganda. Marina Antillon's poster presentation focuses on efforts against gHAT in Chad: A mathematical and economic modeling study of end-game interventions.