New sleeping sickness drug approved

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/health/sleeping-sickness-africa-cure.html

They managed to secure $63 million in funding for this...a horrific disease, but a disease that only affects a couple of thousand people per year.........maybe suramin won't be needed anymore...

 

from Wikipedia
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Fexinidazole is an antiprotozoal agent.[1] It has activity against Trypanosoma cruzi, Tritrichomonas foetus, Trichomonas vaginalis, Entamoeba histolytica,[1] Trypanosoma brucei,[2] and Leishmania donovani.[3] The biologically relevant active metabolites in vivo are the sulfoxide and sulfone.[3][4] Fexinidazole was discovered by the German pharmaceutical company Hoechst AG, but its development as a pharmaceutical was halted in the 1980s.[5] Fexinidazole is now being studied through a collaboration between Sanofi and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative for the treatment of Chagas disease and human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).[6][7] Fexinidazole is the first drug candidate for the treatment of advanced-stage sleeping sickness in thirty years.[8]


@Retha Viviers

 

Is this in any way similar to Suramin or something completely different?

 

Treating the Tsetse's Curse
— A drug called fexinidazole deserves a heart-felt shout-out


https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/parasites-and-plagues/108670