Research on Climate Change and Health in SADC region - DDRN

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<strong>Research</strong> Challenges in the field ofCC and Health• Establishing and documenting linkages between climatechange and health• Development or improvement of rapid diagnostic tests• Development of vaccines• Improvement of disease surveillance at state and locallevel• Transmission dynamics studies
Way forward• Collaboration between networks is key forcomplementarity. Joint efforts with networks that havealready made good progress is encouraged• Awareness campaigns and lobbying are necessary toencourage work on CC and health• More studies on health particularly for other diseasesbesides malaria are needed to convince policy makers• Fellowships initiatives should be used as knowledgesources on CC issues– Climate Change Fellowship Programme (ACCFP)– Capacity Strengthening of Least Developed Countries onClimate Change Adaptation (CLACC)
Page 1 and 2: Research on Climat
Page 3 and 4: Background• Third and forth IPCC
Page 5 and 6: Burden of diseases in DALYS for the
Page 7 and 8: How climate change may impact onhea
Page 9 and 10: Demographic indicators for 2004 in
Page 11 and 12: Examples of current ‘hotspots’
Page 13 and 14: Multiple problems for African regio
Page 15 and 16: Vector borne diseases likely to be
Page 17 and 18: Number of references quoted in theI
Page 19 and 20: Number of institutions per country
Page 21 and 22: Prioritization of health issues in
Page 23 and 24: Networks in the SSA• Southern Afr
Page 25 and 26: Networks in the SSA• Miombo Netwo
Page 27: Observations• Not much work on CC

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