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Climate change and Aids from UNAIDS website

Two of the most important long wave global issues HIV and Climate Change Complex (HACC). The severity of this is the overlap in time between the peak impacts of climate change (future) and HIV. Uneven spatial distributions of this impact. Populations with currently high rates of HIV are the most vulnerable to a worsening or prolongation of the epidemic due to CC.-africa SAA –sub Saharan is highest at risk CC: deterioration of regional and global food security. Lowers nutrient levels and thus immune funtions to combat HIV aides . Also global food security shortages are likely to increase poverty, impair learning, and expand migrants and raise inequality between the governing bodies and their populations.

The current decline in global food security, partly attributable to CC, is already causing disproportionate nutritional harm to migrants and otherwise impoverished populations, some of whom experience AIDS.

There is agreement that the second major pathway of the HACC is the CC-related alteration in the distribution of infectious diseases, which interact with AIDS. Of these, malaria is the most important, due to its high burden of disease (BOD). If malaria spreads, the burden of HIV is likely to rise as well. Because people that have aids die from other diseases and malaria could be it.

Possibility that that CC will harm infrastructure and governance on a scale sufficient to aggravate and prolong the BOD of4AIDS. Migrants and refugees due to severe weather can aggravate gender inequalities. (increased viral transmission and reduced access to treatment and prevention) 

At the global level, CC may exert an immense opportunity cost, diverting resources of the international community away from public health, including from HIV, poverty alleviation, and the other- Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

CC and aids brings together two groups of people those concerned with the environment and those concerned with social justice.

By 2001, AIDS was the world’s fourth leading cause of death, after heart disease, stroke, and acute lower respiratory infection\ (5) The catastrophic recent decline in life expectancy in several countries in SSA is predominantly because of AIDS.

three important pathways which connect these two issues, HIV and Climate Change Complex (HACC). Following the literature review this report will focus on several important elements shown in this chart. We first discuss food security (regional and global) and the links between malaria and other CC sensitive diseases. Finally, we discuss HIV, poverty, population displacement, employment, migration, refugees, gender inequality, and governance and conflict.

CC could cause a significant slowing in the global economy primarily through loss in global world output and higher disaster management related costs, leading to a reduced flow of cash remittances from North to South, greater unemployment caused by the impacts of the economic depression on labour markets, and through these, slower transfer of ideas beneficial to hindering the spread of HIV.