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Health experts discussed these issues in a recent webinar organized by the Health Rights Advocacy Forum, the African Medical and Research Foundation and the African Institute for Development Policy. Worke Tafete is a former visceral leishmaniasis patient from Metemma, northwestern Ethiopia. Climate change is affecting the spread of VL, the largest parasitic killer after malaria. Changes in temperature and rainfall affect the geographic distribution of sandfly populations that cause this often-fatal disease. Image ©️ Sydelle Willow Smith/DNDi., an estimated 3.
Dr. Bernard Onyango, a senior research and policy analyst at AFIDEP, focused on the complex interplay between climate-related health hazards, exposed populations and vulnerability factors. He noted that climate hazards such as heat waves, rising sea levels, air pollution and changes in vector distribution and ecology pose significant challenges to public health systems.
“For the interventions to work, then the Ministry of Health in Kenya must conduct vulnerability assessments to identify areas of focus in mitigating the spread of vector-borne diseases,” he said, adding that it is only after such assessments that policies and adaptation plans can be formulated and possibly be adopted in the country’s finance budget for implementation.