An Issue of Environmental Justice: Understanding the Relationship among HIV/AIDS Infection in Women, Water Distribution, and Global Investment in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Lewis, Nghana

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“…The infusion of human and technological capital to support such a green "revolution" would also have many direct and indirect benefits to the local population and could prove to be a powerful message to the climate change and HIV communities worldwide [132]. Such efforts are also consistent with the goals of the environmental justice movement by incorporating historically disadvantaged groups in environmental policymaking and policy implementation [11].…”

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“…Environmental justice has emerged as an important lens for assessing the disproportionate impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, including PLWHIV [10]. Environmental justice is a theoretical and activist framework that aims to expose inequities in the distribution of natural resources among disadvantaged and minority groups [11]. HIV/AIDS can be framed as an environmental justice issue due to the intimate connection that exists between natural resource allocation and the transmission and progression of HIV/AIDS.…”

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The Synergistic Relationship Between Climate Change and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Conceptual Framework

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Climate change and HIV/AIDS represent two of the greatest threats to human health in the 21st century. However, limitations in understanding the complex relationship between these syndemics continue to constrain advancements in the prevention and management of HIV/AIDS in the context of a rapidly changing climate. Here, we present a conceptual framework that identifies four pathways linking climate change with HIV/AIDS transmission and health outcomes: increased food insecurity, increased prevalence of other infectious diseases, increased human migration, and erosion of public health infrastructure. This framework is based on an in-depth literature review in PubMed and Google Scholar from June 6 to June 27, 2019. The pathways linking climate change with HIV transmission and health outcomes are complex with multiple interacting factors. Food insecurity emerged as a particularly important mediator by driving sexual risk-taking behaviours and migration, as well as by increasing susceptibility to infections that are common among people living with HIV (PLWHIV). Future interventions should focus on decreasing carbon dioxide emissions globally and increasing education and investment in adaptation strategies, particularly in those areas of sub-Saharan Africa and southeast Asia heavily impacted by both HIV and climate change.Environmentally sustainable interventions such as urban gardening and investing in sustainable agriculture technologies also have significant health co-benefits that may help PLWHIV adapt to the environmental consequences of climate change.

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The Synergistic Relationship Between Climate Change and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Conceptual Framework

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Joining the Dots: Environment, Disease and Enterprise in the “New” South African Novel

Poyner

2020

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The chapter discusses how Get a Life and High Low In - Between narrativise a failure to imagine the connections and its corrective of joining the dots between global capitalism, the environment and human health. This corrective is revealed through a process of telescoping divergent scales of existence, from the microscopic to the cosmic, that has been deployed by environmentalists and ecocritics to understand the relationship between human and planetary agency. Joining the dots prompts readings of human disease such as HIV/AIDS, in part at least, as an issue of environmental injustice. This thesis risks apparently endorsing Thabo Mbeki’s eccentric response to the AIDS crisis, whereby Mbeki argued with catastrophic effect that poverty causes AIDS. Yet notions of environmental justice provide a meaningful, materialist intervention in our understanding of human health.

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HIV/AIDS, care-giving and the politics of water and sanitation: A case study

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2011

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An Issue of Environmental Justice: Understanding the Relationship among HIV/AIDS Infection in Women, Water Distribution, and Global Investment in Rural Sub-Saharan Africa

Cited by 3 publications

References 48 publications

The Synergistic Relationship Between Climate Change and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Conceptual Framework

The Synergistic Relationship Between Climate Change and the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: A Conceptual Framework

Joining the Dots: Environment, Disease and Enterprise in the “New” South African Novel

HIV/AIDS, care-giving and the politics of water and sanitation: A case study

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