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Can new pills end sleeping sickness?

European drug regulators on Friday endorsed a new and simpler treatment for sleeping sickness, in what could be a giant boost to efforts to eliminate the disease. A European Medicines Agency committee gave its nod to acoziborole, developed by Sanofi and DNDi. Speaking to France 24, Dr Luis Pizarro, executive director of DNDi, said the new pill could revolutionise treatment of the disease, which has killed hundreds of thousands across Africa.

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