Impatti, adattamento e vulnerabilita Le cause e le responsabilita dei cambiamenti climatici sono state trattate sul numero di ottobre della rivista Cda. Approfondiamo l’argomento presentando il documento: “Cambiamenti climatici 2007: impatti, adattamento e vulnerabilita” votato ad aprile 2007 dal secondo gruppo di lavoro del Comitato Intergovernativo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change). Si tratta del secondo di tre documenti che compongono il quarto rapporto sui cambiamenti climatici.

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Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability.

Male circumcision for HIV prevention in young men in Kisumu, Kenya : a randomised controlled trial. Commentary

https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(04)17482-5.pdf

Human resources for health: overcoming the crisis

MALNUTRITION, WITH ITS 2 CONSTITUENTS of protein–energy malnutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, continues to be a major health burden in developing countries. It is globally the most important risk factor for illness and death, with hundreds of millions of pregnant women and young children particularly affected. Apart from marasmus and kwashiorkor (the 2 forms of protein– energy malnutrition), deficiencies in iron, iodine, vitamin A and zinc are the main manifestations of malnutrition in developing countries. In these communities, a high prevalence of poor diet and infectious disease regularly unites into a vicious circle. Although treatment protocols for severe malnutrition have in recent years become more efficient, most patients (especially in rural areas) have little or no access to formal health services and are never seen in such settings. Interventions to prevent protein– energy malnutrition range from promoting breast-feeding to food supplementation schemes, whereas micronutrient deficiencies would best be addressed through food-based strategies such as dietary diversification through home gardens and small livestock. The fortification of salt with iodine has been a global success story, but other micronutrient supplementation schemes have yet to reach vulnerable populations sufficiently. To be effective, all such interventions require accompanying nutrition-education campaigns and health interventions. To achieve the hunger- and malnutrition-related Millennium Development Goals, we need to address poverty, which is clearly associated with the insecure supply of food and nutrition.

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Malnutrition and health in developing countries

The ‘risk environment’: a framework for understanding and reducing drug-related harm

Introduction: Disease, Change, Consciousness and Denial The Disease and its Epidemiology Susceptibility: Epidemic Roots Susceptibility: Cases Why Africa? Vulnerability and Impact Introduction to Impact Impact: Individuals, Households and Communities Dependants: Orphans and the Elderly Subsistence Agriculture and Rural Livelihoods HIV/AIDS and 'For Profit' Enterprise Aids, Development and Economic Growth Government and Governance Responses

AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization

AIDS: The Challenge for South Africa

New variant famine: AIDS and food crisis in southern Africa.

Dead aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa, by Dambisa Moyo, New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009, 188 pp., including notes, US$24.00 (hardcover), ISBN-13: 978-0...

Dead aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa

HIV/AIDS is the major threat to development, economic growth and poverty alleviation in much of Africa And yet the full extent of the catastrophe facing the continent is only just being recognised, and still not by all The international development targets set by the great and the good of the global community--or at least by those members of the community who attend the international summits that set these goals--do not consider what HIV/AIDS means and are unachievable This paper begins by setting the scene, describing the epidemic, explaining why it is so important and what makes HIV/AIDS different It then explores how the poverty/epidemic cycle works, whereby poverty increases the spread of HIV and AIDS increases poverty It suggests we need to look beyond monetary poverty to understand these relationships Finally the paper assesses what can and should be done to break the HIV/AIDS poverty cycle

Alan Whiteside

Papers

AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Disease and Globalization

AIDS: The Challenge for South Africa

New variant famine: AIDS and food crisis in southern Africa.

Dead aid: Why aid is not working and how there is a better way for Africa

Poverty and HIV/AIDS in Africa