This is a new one. It’s almost like Reuters said “hey, let’s find things that haven’t been blamed and worked it in”
Climate change hitting fight against AIDS, TB and malaria
Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned.
International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fund’s 2023 results report released on Monday.
But the increasing challenges of climate change and conflict mean the world is likely to miss the target of putting an end to AIDS, TB and malaria by 2030 without “extraordinary steps”, said Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund.
For example, malaria is spreading to highland parts of Africa that were previously too cold for the mosquito carrying the disease-causing parasite.
The world warms, and the use of DDT could do wonders.
Extreme weather events like floods are overwhelming health services, displacing communities, causing upsurges in infection and interrupting treatment in many different places, the report said. In countries including Sudan, Ukraine, Afghanistan and Myanmar, simply reaching vulnerable communities has also been immensely challenging due to insecurity, it added.
They do not explain at all how this dovetails into AIDS and TB. There have always been weather disasters. Perhaps if they spent time explaining that the main way to avoid getting HIV/AIDS is to not have unprotected sex, especially with men who have sex with other men. Perhaps, instead of spending all that money on the climate scam, they can spend it on TB drugs. The vast majority occurs in Southeast Asia and Africa. Stop trying to force them to have wind turbines and get them the proper drugs.
But, this is simply a way of injecting the climate cult into the issues, because the cult wants every issue under their banner.
I guess i cant post and imgur link to a meme on here, this is the second time i’ve tried and they don’t show up
oh well
Mr Teach has tried this canard previously: The world warms, and the use of DDT could do wonders.
The Stockholm Convention (2004) banned the AGRICULTURAL use of DDT, but not use of DDT for vector (mosquito) control. Some areas (hello India!) still use DDT for agricultural use.
Of course, malaria is not a problem in the US (for now).
Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is long-lived (tens to hundreds of years) in the environment and animals (including humans). Human serum levels of DDT and it’s longer-lived metabolite DDE have dropped dramatically in the US since the ban. DDE is known to decrease reproduction in birds. DDT and its metabolites are carcinogens in animal studies.
Insects have become increasingly resistant to DDT.
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* Countries of sub-Saharan Africa and India.