The SOS (Stamp Out Sleeping Sickness) initiative has stopped one deadly disease from becoming more lethal while creating hundreds of jobs and sustainable businesses.

Sleeping sickness or Human African trypanosomiasis, a deadly disease, which threatened the lives of millions of people throughout Africa has been halted, thanks to a consortium of veterinarians, doctors and Government agencies working together with the private sector.  

As a result, new businesses and hundreds of sustainable new jobs have been created. 

Ceva Sounds correspondent, Nik Wood talks to some of the key figures in the SOS project to celebrate the success of the campaign.