How do I find out I have African sleeping sickness?
So I have this disease... now what?
Where is all of my money going?
How has the number of infections changed over the past century?
How do people find out about this disease?
Education is one of the key factors in lowering the transmission rate of African sleeping sickness. If civilians living in the endemic regions know to wear long sleeves and pants to prevent the tsetse fly from biting and that lesions as well as flu-like symptoms can lead to a fatal disease than they may be more likely to get screened and tested. Pamphlets would not be a good way of education because many of the civilians are not able to read and therefore would it would not be good form of education especially in the rural small villages.
A more realistic approach may be to incorporate prevention and identification into school curriculums. Although it would only benefit youths who attend school, word of mouth will educate elders as well as other peers. If it'd also be possible to have a conference to train individuals to educate others around the country about what to look out for and how to protect themselves. This should also help the economy by creating more jobs for civilians and helping the government because it would lower the amounts of deaths caused by this disease. If the amounts of deaths decreased it will help with agriculture as well as exporting/importing goods within the country.