Research on Climate Change and Health in SADC region - DDRN

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Background• CC phenomenon is now better understood than in 1988when Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change(IPCC) was formed• First report of IPCC formed basis for establishment ofUnited Nations Framework Convention on ClimateChange (UNFCCC)• UNFCCC currently has 189 members• At its 28 th Session, the UNFCCCC Subsidiary Body forScientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) recognizedthe role of CC regional centres and networks inenhancing adaptation ; and encouraged theestablishment of new networks• Global and Regional Networks for Climate ChangeAdaptation are concurrently being established (UNEP)
Background• Third and forth IPCC assessments highlighted that Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) will be affected most because ofvarious reasons including poverty, weak healthinstitutions, conflicts, etc• But inferences on Africa are based on scanty data andsharing of such information has not happened in asystematic manner• It is against this background that the Danish institutionsand some southern africa institutions initiated this workas a basis for establishing a NSS network on CC• Background papers focussing on the impacts of CC onthree themes: health, water and food security were thuscommissioned.
Page 1: Research on Climat
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 and 28: Observations• Not much work on CC
Page 29 and 30: Way forward• Collaboration betwee

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