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• Medicinal plants

  The mission of Product Research and Development is the discovery and development of drugs. Drugs, although often inadequate or compromised by resistance, are still the mainstay for control of these diseases as no vaccine is yet registered for trypanosomiasis. Due to the increased costs of developing and registering pharmaceutical products, together with the prospect of inadequate commercial returns, the pharmaceutical industry are largely shying away from the area of tropical parasitic diseases. In African trypanosomiasis, each of the drugs in use has its drawbacks. Pentamidine and suramin, used only for early-stage disease, both have serious side effects. Of the two drugs used for late-stage disease, melarsoprol is very toxic and even fatal while eflornithine is expensive and only affects Trypanosoma brucei gambiense Plants have provided the basis for traditional treatment for different types of diseases and still offer an enormous potential source of new chemotherapeutic agents.