East Africa: Horn of Africa – Climate-Related Health Crisis Worsens As Disease Outbreaks Surge

Seven countries in the region recorded 39 reported outbreaks, flooding and other acute public health events between 1 January and 30 October 2022

The number of reported disease outbreaks and climate-related health emergencies in the greater Horn Africa have reached their highest-ever level this century, deepening a health crisis in a region where 47 million people are already facing acute hunger.

Climate change is having an impact here and now on the health of Africans in the greater Horn of…