Campaign launched to eliminate tsetse fly

Abstract

A new campaign, the Pan African Tsetse and Trypanosomosis Eradication Campaign (PATTEC), to control the deadly tsetse fly in Africa, has been launched by the Organization of African Unity (OAU), with the support of UN agencies. At a meeting in February 2002 Assistant Secretary-General of the OAU Ambassador Lawrence Agubuzu pledged that the OAU would be at the forefront of this fight against the tsetse fly.