Hospital for African trypanosomiasis

A hospital for patients with human African trypanosomiasis HAT in Ayos, Cameroon. Cameroon lies on the west coast of Africa, in an area affected by gambiense HAT. Ayos is historically significant to the field of trypanosomiasis: in the early 1900s a medical doctor called Eugène Jamot travelled to Cameroon to join a Sleeping Sickness Treatment Research Group. Together with his colleagues he discovered that tsetse flies transmitted trypanosomiasis. He later helped set up several training facilities, including one in Ayos.