A new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UNAIDS, IRIN reports, seeks to join the global activist forces in the fight against climate change and HIV/AIDS. So far, both threats have known separate responses, but climate change may very well have many impacts that could worsen the HIV/AIDS situation in the developing world.
The biggest threat - already present in many parts of the world - is food insecurity caused by more intense and widespread droughts, and other extreme weather events such as flooding.
The authors also speculate that competition for increasingly scarce resources brought on by climate change, such as water and grazing, may heighten the risk of conflict and migration, and deepen gender and social inequities - all factors with the potential to fuel the spread of HIV.
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