New tools: a) Discovery and development of new drugs and enhanced formulations. b) Infection diagnostic kits with better specificity. c) Diagnostic means for monitoring the illness state in the SNC and to determine potential cure.

New intervention methods: a) Clinical-epidemiologic significance of the direct and indirect agglutination test for the trypanosome. b) Evaluation of the short duration treatment with pentamidina, suramin and melarsoprol. c) Investigation on melarsoprol-resistance.

New strategies: Sustainable and community based control on Tsetse fly.