[Strategy of sleeping sickness control in the Peoples' Republic of Congo: research and perspectives].

The authors review the different strategies applied nowadays in the Popular Republic of Congo to eradicate sleeping sickness. They underline the problems encountered on the field as well as researches carried out to solve them. Recent progress at both levels of screening and trapping opened interesting prospects. Success of the Congo in its fight against sleeping sickness depends now mainly on means made available to apply on a large scale these new methods.