Despite recent advances in climate change attribution, many health impacts remain unmeasured1. Here we leverage over a century of clinical data2 to investigate whether human-caused climate change has increased the burden of childhood malaria across sub-Saharan Africa. We find a robust effect of temperature and extreme precipitation on prevalence, consistent with previous findings at local scales…
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The U.S. government’s withdrawal of funding for global HIV programs in January 2025 sharply reduced the number of people entering HIV care across East Africa within weeks, according to findings led by UC San Francisco researchers.
The tropics cover less than one-third of the Earth’s surface, but are home to more than half of all known species. Forests, savannas, grasslands, deserts: a vast array of environments stretches along the planet’s equatorial belt. This diversity, however, is not static. It is the result of millions of years of changes that have reshaped…
