Years of Life Lived with Disability (YLD) due to T.b. rhodesiense HAT in Urambo.

Disability weights of 0.21 (approximating to a limited ability to perform most activities in one of the following areas: recreation, education, procreation or occupation [24]) and 0.81 (needing assistance with instrumental activities of daily living such as meal preparation, shopping and housework [24]) were used for the early and late stage cases respectively in these calculations.The results are expressed as mean values with 95% confidence intervals in brackets, these were obtained from 10000 Monte-Carlo simulations of the data derived from 2000–2007 Urambo sleeping sickness cases.Note that column totals are independently modeled and may therefore not exactly match age-specific output summaries.