Climate and HIV/AIDS. A Hotspots Analysis for Early Warning Rapid Response Systems
This paper has three main objectives: (1) To show that background vulnerabilities that create the conditions for increasing the risk of HIV infection can be directly or indirectly influenced by climate factors. Certain aspects of climate and weather, as will be shown in the case of Rwanda, can be included in an early warning system, because they could give even earlier alerts for crisis building; (2) To present key concepts in order to achieve the previous objective, taking into account that som e readers may not be familiar with climate issues. The reader is guided through these concepts by using the approach of hotspots. This is a dynamic approach developed for agriculture and other early warning systems: they are thus congruent with the Early Warning Rapid Response System for HIV/AIDS; (3) To encourage further exploration of the ideas and concepts presented. Relationships between climate and HIV/AIDS are largely conjectural at this stage rather than empirical. Thus, in order to situa te it within a constellation of relations, HIV/AIDS is discussed in a wide open manner along with other issues and human diseases.
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| Format: | Book (stand-alone) biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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2004
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| Online Access: | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/AU029E http://www.fao.org/3/a-au029e.pdf |
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