Sleeping sickness spreads via river banks where tsetsi flies live.

Zindo: ‘My son was sleeping and whining all the time’.

Alfred Mpayambe: 'I thought it was witchcraft'.

Video excerpts x 3, from the full multi-media article.

The Big Sleep, The Guardian

A multimedia article produced for The Guardian's The Upside, "The Big Sleep" explores how a group of Congolese doctors are tracking down the last remaining cases of sleeping sickness in remote regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Written by Sarah Boseley, with video and photography by Millie Harvey and David Levene. This work received the Future of Journalism Award from the Constructive Institute of Journalism.

Read the article: The Big Sleep: How the world's most troubled country is beating a deadly disease.

Mobile screening teams and rowing pirogues on the Kasai River.