title: Rift Valley fever dynamics in Senegal: a project for pro-active adaptation and improvement of livestock raising management.
abstract: The multi-disciplinary French project "Adaptation à la Fiévre de la Vallée du Rift" (AdaptFVR) has concluded a 10-year constructive interaction between many scientists/partners involved with the Rift Valley fever (RVF) dynamics in Senegal. The three targeted objectives reached were (i) to produce--in near real-time--validated risk maps for parked livestock exposed to RVF mosquitoes/vectors bites; (ii) to assess the impacts on RVF vectors from climate variability at different time-scales including climate change; and (iii) to isolate processes improving local livestock management and animal health. Based on these results, concrete, pro-active adaptive actions were taken on site, which led to the establishment of a RVF early warning system (RVFews). Bulletins were released in a timely fashion during the project, tested and validated in close collaboration with the local populations, i.e. the primary users. Among the strategic, adaptive methods developed, conducted and evaluated in terms of cost/benefit analyses are the larvicide campaigns and the coupled bio-mathematical (hydrological and entomological) model technologies, which are being transferred to the staff of the "Centre de Suivi Ecologique" (CSE) in Dakar during 2013. Based on the results from the AdaptFVR project, other projects with similar conceptual and modelling approaches are currently being implemented, e.g. for urban and rural malaria and dengue in the French Antilles.
authors.forename: Murielle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lafaye
authors.forename: Baba
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sall
authors.forename: Youssou
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ndiaye
authors.forename: Cecile
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vignolles
authors.forename: Yves M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Tourre
authors.forename: Franc Ois
authors.initials: FO
authors.lastname: Borchi
authors.forename: Jean-Michel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Soubeyroux
authors.forename: Mawlouth
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Diallo
authors.forename: Ibrahima
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dia
authors.forename: Yamar
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ba
authors.forename: Abdoulaye
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Faye
authors.forename: Taibou
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ba
authors.forename: Alioune
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ka
authors.forename: Jacques-André
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Ndione
authors.forename: Hélène
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gauthier
authors.forename: Jean-Pierre
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Lacaux
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry / Q000379:methods*; D000818:Animals; D057231:Climate Change; D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000379:methods*; D003465:Culex / Q000821:virology*; D007303:Insect Vectors / Q000821:virology*; D058751:Livestock; D011156:Population Density; D012295:Rift Valley Fever / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D063809:Satellite Imagery; D012621:Seasons; D012675:Senegal / Q000453:epidemiology