The ongoing climate crisis could disrupt HIV services and worsen risks for vulnerable populations, according to a new report by UNAIDS and the UN Development Programme. The report highlights how climate change intensifies challenges like public health infrastructure erosion, food insecurity, water scarcity, and mass displacement, factors that can increase new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths, a UNDP press release …
Recovery costs ‘will obviously exceed that amount’ after last month’s ‘apocalyptic’ destruction, UN official says. Damage caused by last month’s devastating earthquakes in Turkey will exceed $100bn, a United Nations Development Programme official has said, ahead of a major donor conference next week. “It’s clear from the calculations being done to date that the damage figure presented by the government …
