The increasing challenges of the climate crisis and conflict mean the world is likely to miss the target of putting an end to AIDS, TB and malaria by 2030, according to the Global Fund's new results report.
Extreme weather events like floods are overwhelming health services, displacing communities, causing upsurges in infection and interrupting treatment in many different places, the report said. / Photo: Reuters
The climate crisis and conflict have been hitting efforts to tackle three of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned.badly affected by the Covid-19 pandemicBut the increasing challenges of the climate crisis and conflict mean the world is likely to miss the target of
, TB and malaria by 2030 without “extraordinary steps”, said Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund.to highland parts of Africa that were previously too cold for the mosquito carrying the disease-causing parasite. Extreme weather events like floods are overwhelming health services, displacing communities, causing upsurges in infection and interrupting treatment in many different places, the report said.
In countries including Sudan, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Myanmar, simply reaching vulnerable communities has also been immensely challenging due to insecurity, it added.
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