Over the past few months, our climate and health projects have been making headlines, showing both the urgent challenges we face and the important work being done to address them. Below are some recent highlights from articles and radio interviews featuring our experts and project partners.
By Bhekisisa Centre for Health Journalism
In this feature, Prof. Collins Iwuji and other leading voices highlight the powerful and often overlooked connection between HIV, migration, and climate change.
“There is an indirect but logical flow to HIV threats as the effects of climate change and migration become clearer… If people are displaced from their homes, like during sudden flooding catastrophes, what follows may be a massive movement of people to a different part within a very short space of time. But there are also slow-onset climate events like droughts. People are still forced by climate to flee, but it is a decision that happens over time. What is common to both forms of migration is that it can push people into situations where HIV becomes a bigger threat.”
Inanda FM
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Dr. Marlies Craig, Health Systems and Policy Analyst at the Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI), was interviewed on South Africa’s Inanda FM for their All Things Wellbeing feature during Wellness Awareness Month. She spoke about how the environment, from the air we breathe to the green spaces we enjoy, directly affects our health.
Click here to listen to the full interview ➜
Ukhozi FM
Floods, heatwaves, and rising temperatures — climate change is reshaping our health in ways that affect not just our bodies, but our minds and communities too. In this radio interview, AHRI Research Associate Dr. Sithembiso Mnqobi Ndlovu unpacked the deep connections between climate and health, and what they mean for us all.
Click here to listen on Ukhozi FM ➜
Note: This interview is conducted in the local South African language isiZulu.
Together, these conversations show a growing recognition: climate change is not just an environmental issue — it is a health issue, affecting every aspect of how we live, move and thrive.
