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. 2020 May 21;14(5):e0008261. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0008261

Table 1. T. b. gambiense HAT: New cases reported between 2009 and 2018.

Country 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Total
Angola 247 211 154 70 69 36 35 20 18 79 939
Burkina Faso 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1
Cameroon 24 16 15 7 6 7 6 6 5 7 99
Central African Republic 1,054 395 132 381 59 194 147 101 76 57 2,596
Chad 510 232 276 197 195 95 67 54 28 12 1,666
Congo 87 87 61 39 20 21 36 18 15 24 408
Côte d’Ivoire 8 8 10 9 7 6 3 0 3 2 56
Democratic Republic of the Congo 7,178 5,624 5,590 5,969 5,649 3,205 2,347 1,768 1,100 660 39,090
Equatorial Guinea 7 8 1 2 3 0 0 3 4 4 32
Gabon 14 22 17 9 17 10 9 10 9 16 133
Ghana 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
Guinea 79 68 57 70 78 33 29 108 139 74 735
Nigeria 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 8
South Sudan 373 199 272 317 117 63 45 17 12 17 1,432
Uganda 99 101 44 20 9 9 4 4 0 1 291
Total 9,680 6,973 6,632 7,092 6,230 3,679 2,729 2,110 1,409 953 47,487

Other historically T. b. gambiense HAT endemic countries not reporting cases but with surveillance activities are Benin, Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo. In the Gambia and Liberia no cases are reported but no surveillance activity is known.