MAPPING SLEEPING SICKNESS IN WESTERN AFRICA IN A CONTEXT OF DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Résumé Cartographie
De La
Trypanosomose Humaine Africaine
En Afrique
Dans Un
Contexte De Transition
Démographique Et
De Changement Climatique

Publication date

August 2016

Abstract

Human population growth, climate change and economic development are causing major environmental modifications in Western Africa, which will have important repercussions on the epidemiology of sleeping sickness. A new initiative, the Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), aims at assembling and geo-referencing all epidemiological data derived from both active screening activities and passive surveillance. A geographic database enables to generate up-to-date disease maps at a range of scales and of unprecedented spatial accuracy. We present preliminary results for seven West African countries (Benin, Burkin