Kenya has been validated by the World Health Organization (WHO) for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, as a public health problem. This marks a significant milestone, making Kenya the tenth country globally to achieve this.

• The last autochthonous case of sleeping sickness in Kenya was detected in 2009.
• The WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, congratulated Kenya on this landmark achievement.
• This is the second neglected tropical disease (NTD) eliminated in Kenya, following the certification of freedom from Guinea worm disease in 2018.