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Support for research towards understanding the population health vulnerabilities to vector-borne diseases: increasing resilience under climate change conditions in Africa

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Title
Support for research towards understanding the population health vulnerabilities to vector-borne diseases: increasing resilience under climate change conditions in Africa
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Infectious Diseases of Poverty, December 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40249-017-0378-z
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Bernadette Ramirez, on behalf of the TDR-IDRC Research Initiative on Vector Borne Diseases and Climate Change

Abstract

Diseases transmitted to humans by vectors account for 17% of all infectious diseases and remain significant public health problems. Through the years, great strides have been taken towards combatting vector-borne diseases (VBDs), most notably through large scale and coordinated control programmes, which have contributed to the decline of the global mortality attributed to VBDs. However, with environmental changes, including climate change, the impact on VBDs is anticipated to be significant, in terms of VBD-related hazards, vulnerabilities and exposure. While there is growing awareness on the vulnerability of the African continent to VBDs in the context of climate change, there is still a paucity of research being undertaken in this area, and impeding the formulation of evidence-based health policy change. One way in which the gap in knowledge and evidence can be filled is for donor institutions to support research in this area. The collaboration between the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) and the International Centre for Research and Development (IDRC) builds on more than 10 years of partnership in research capacity-building in the field of tropical diseases. From this partnership was born yet another research initiative on VBDs and the impact of climate change in the Sahel and sub-Saharan Africa. This paper lists the projects supported under this research initiative and provides a brief on some of the policy and good practice recommendations emerging from the ongoing implementation of the research projects. Data generated from the research initiative are expected to be uptaken by stakeholders (including communities, policy makers, public health practitioners and other relevant partners) to contribute to a better understanding of the impacts of social, environmental and climate change on VBDs(i.e. the nature of the hazard, vulnerabilities, exposure), and improve the ability of African countries to adapt to and reduce the effects of these changes in ways that benefit their most vulnerable populations.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 148 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 29 20%
Researcher 19 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 7%
Student > Bachelor 8 5%
Other 18 12%
Unknown 46 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 19 13%
Environmental Science 15 10%
Social Sciences 11 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 10 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 8 5%
Other 35 24%
Unknown 50 34%