Climate change will end up killing people by fueling infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria said Tuesday.
Executive director Peter Sands said that in 2022, the fund had witnessed the "escalating impact" of climate change on health.
Sands said that parts of Africa which previously were unaffected by malaria are now becoming at risk as temperatures rise and allow mosquitos to thrive, notably at higher altitudes. "The more that we see climate change-driven displacement of people, the more I think that will translate into the conditions that will at least make it more likely."As for whether the world was better prepared for the next pandemic than it was for COVID-19, Sands said it was, but added: "That doesn't mean we are well prepared: we're just not as badly prepared as we were before.
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