Luanda - Sleeping sickness research has been suspended this year, due to lack of funds, on Friday in Luanda, said the director of the Institute of Fight and Control of Trypanosomiasis (ICCT), Josenando Teófilo.

 
According to the source, ICCT expected to check up 2.775,265 people from January to April this year, but only 50,669 were reached, representing a coverage of 3,7 percent.

At least 77 new cases of the illness were recorded in the provinces of Uije (14), Malanje (11), Kwanza-Norte (27), Bengo (29), Zaire (14), Luanda (12) and Kwanza-Sul (04).

The health authorities had as its goal to increase the coverage from 12 percent of 2008, to 80 percent, in 2012.