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...readying societies to deal with heat waves - ensuring that the most vulnerable elderly aren't left on their own - and improving defenses against vector-borne diseases, with anti-malaria nets and medicines like artemisinin. Such preparations will be especially needed in those parts of the developing world - sub-Saharan Africa, south Asia - that will bear the brunt of climate change. But Patz would also like to see public health tackle carbon emissions directly, cutting off global warming at the source. For him, carbon dioxide should be treated as a pollutant that damages human health, albeit indirectly...
More than 1.2 million deaths could be prevented in South Africa alone over the next five years by making antiretroviral therapy (ART) more accessible, according to a study released online by the Journal of Infectious Diseases last week...
Using a mathematical model of HIV onset and treatment to simulate hypothetical patients from real data, researchers—led by Rochelle P. Walensky of Mass. General Hospital—projected the number of AIDS-related deaths through 2012 in South Africa under five scenarios...
...past that had left the lion's share of arable land in the hands of Zimbabwe's white minority - but this only deepened the crisis: The pick of the confiscated farms went to the President's cronies, and the country that had once been the bread-basket of southern Africa was suddenly no longer able to feed itself...
...Zimbabwe's regeneration, says Michelle Gavin, Adjunct Scholar on Africa at the Council on Foreign Relations, "would have to be an all-hands-on-deck effort." International financial institutions and donors, which ended their involvement to protest the regime's corruption and human rights abuses, would be likely to step in with emergency programs to bring Zimbabwe back from the brink. And already international investors sense a bargain in the making. LonZim, an investment fund set up by the Lonrho mining group last December, has already raised $65 million to invest in Zimbabwe. "We're very bullish that Zimbabwe...