@article{fdi:010044381, title = {{I}mpacts des {\'e}volutions d{\'e}mographiques et climatiques sur la r{\'e}partition spatiale des hommes, des ts{\'e}-ts{\'e} et des trypanosomoses en {A}frique de l'{O}uest = {P}opulation growth and global warming : impacts on tsetse and tryponosomoses in {W}est {A}frica}, author = {{C}ourtin, {F}abrice and {S}idib{\'e}, {I}. and {R}ouamba, {J}. and {J}amonneau, {V}incent and {G}ouro, {A}. and {S}olano, {P}hilippe}, editor = {}, language = {{FRE}}, abstract = {{D}emographic evolution, climatic change and economical development that happened in {W}est {A}frica during the {XX}th century had a lot of consequences on human settlement and landscape. {T}hese changes have in turn an impact on the pathogenic system of human and animal tryponosomoses. {S}ince lost century, the northern tsetse distribution limit has shifted towards the south, probably due to a decrease in rainfall combined to the impact of human pressure. {S}leeping sickness ({SS}) foci have also shifted from the savannah areas (where there is no more {SS}) to the forest and mangrove areas of {W}est {A}frica, but animal tryponosomoses are still present in savannah. {W}e show a decrease of tsetse of the morsitans group as a result of an increase of human densities. {O}n the opposite, tsetse species like {G}lossina palpalis adopt to high human densities and are found in the biggest urban centres of {W}est {A}frica. {T}here is a need to promote multidisciplinary studies on this demographic-climatic-vector borne disease topic, especially in {A}frica to be able to define future areas of presence/absence of these diseases in order to help continental plans of control that hove recently begun.}, keywords = {population growth ; global warming ; {W}est {A}frica ; impact ; tsetse flies ; trypanosomosis}, booktitle = {}, journal = {{P}arasite - {J}ournal de la {S}oci{\'e}t{\'e} {F}ran{\c{c}}aise de {P}arasitologie}, volume = {16}, numero = {1}, pages = {3--10}, ISSN = {1252-607{X}}, year = {2009}, DOI = {10.1051/parasite/2009161003}, URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010044381}, }