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Volume 11, Number 9—September 2005
Research

Trypanosomiasis Control, Democratic Republic of Congo, 1993–2003

Pascal Lutumba*†, Jo Robays†, Constantin Miaka mia Bilenge*, Victor Kande Betu Ku Mesu*, Didier Molisho‡, Johan Declercq§, Wim Van der Veken§, Filip Meheus¶, Jean Jannin#, and Marleen Boelaert†Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Programme National de Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; †Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium; ‡Fonds Médical Tropical, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; §Coopération Technique Belge, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo; ¶Institute of Development Policy and Management, Antwerp, Belgium; #World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

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Table 1

Financial resources converted to constant 1998 US$ and their origin during the first (1993–1997) and the second period (1998–2003)*†

Type of donor 1993–1997
 1998–2003
US$ Percentage US$ Percentage
Belgian government Bilateral 4,508,774 69.2 14,566,002 87.1
European union Bilateral 1,337,946 20.5 656,367 3.9
Congolese government NA 270,611 4.2 329,441 2.0
WHO Multilateral 0 0.0 527,698 3.2
Pain pour le Monde‡ NGO 70,430 1.1 68,411 0.4
MSF‡ NGO 0 0.0 104,233 0.6
MEMISA‡ NGO 70,965 1.1 462,906 2.8
AFRICA‡ NGO 0 0.0 6,440 0.1
Caritas–Germany‡ NGO 254,506 3.9 0 0.0
Total 6,513,232 100.0 16,721,496 100.0
Total per year 1,302,646 2,786,916

*NA., not applicable; NGO, nongovernmental organization; WHO, World Health Organization; MSF, Médecins Sans Frontières Belgique; MEMISA, Medische Missie Samenwerking; AFRICA, Association des Femmes pour les Rencontres Intellectuelles et Culturelles en Afrique.
†Sanofi-Aventis/Bayer in-kind drug donation not included; see text.
‡The amounts mentioned for NGOs are limited to the "own funds," i.e., funds that they had privately raised and spent on sleeping sickness control. Several NGOs were implementing HAT control activities with funds provided by the bilateral or multilateral donors.

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