African islands send SOS as climate change worsens health

Dakar: African island states say they need more help to cope with the health impacts of climate change, from worsening nutrition to a resurgence in mosquito-borne disease.

Access to clean water is an ongoing – and
growing – problem in many parts of Africa.CREDIT:

At least 23 per cent of deaths in Africa are linked to the environment, the highest of any region worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).

This figure is expected to rise as global warming disrupts food supply, water sources and weather patterns, said Magaran Bagayoko, WHO's director of communicable diseases in Africa.

Read the story from The Age by Nellie Peyton - “African islands send SOS as climate change worsens health.”