Photo Credit: European Union 2019/Photographer: Christian Jepsen Climate change is having a profound and escalating impact on health inequalities around the world. Events such as cyclones, tornadoes, and flooding are predicted to become more common and severe, along...
People around the world are facing new challenges for health because of climate change and Mozambique has been particularly hit hard by changing weather patterns. The country, which ranks third in Africa for vulnerability to climate change, has a history of natural...
Drought and resulting issues around food security were also shown in a recent study to affect rates of new HIV infections. The research by Columbia University, the Lesotho Ministry of Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that adolescent...
Adolescent girls exposed to severe drought conditions in rural Lesotho had higher rates of HIV, according to a new study led by researchers at ICAP at Columbia University, a global health organization based at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and from the...
