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Health Promotion in the Amazon Region: Fighting malaria
Summary:
The following case study is featured in the Meister Consultants Group study: *Floating Houses and Mosquito Nets: Emerging Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Around the World*.
The rain forest in Brazil is a unique ecosystem that is particularly threatened by the impacts of climate change. In the worst case scenario, huge parts of the Amazon River basin could transform into a savannah. This would have dramatic consequences both for the worldwide climate, as well as the local population whose livelihood depends on the rain forest. Like many other Latin American countries, Brazil has not fully confronted what is entailed in adapting to climate change. However, this is gradually changing. For instance, the Brazilian climate change plan published in December 2008 covers adaptation. Based on more accurate regional climate models that are expected to be published in 2009, the government intends to prepare detailed adaptation measures.
_Source: Dr. Hans-Peter Meister, I. K., Martina Richwein, Wilson Rickerson, Chad Laurent. Additional contributors: Jeff Snell, Elisa Burchert, Florian Lux. (2009). *Floating Houses and Mosquito Nets: Emerging Climate Change Adaptation Strategies Around the World.* Boston: Meister Consultants Group. p. 21._
For more detailed information and references refer to: [Floating Houses - Full Report](http://files.mc-group.com/clst/Study%20Climate%20Change%20Adaption.pdf).
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Adaptation Experience:
As in other countries, rising temperatures increase the threat of malaria and other tropical diseases in Brazil. The project Building Capacity for Health Vulnerabilities to Climate Change in the Amazon Region of Brazil is dedicated to public health initiatives in the Amazon region. It helps communities along the Amazon, the Tapajós, and Arapius fight diseases such as malaria and leishmaniasis (a parasitic infection spread by sand flies), reaching out to the most remote areas. In the Amazon region, “remote” can mean a 16 hours boat trip.
The project was initiated by SouthSouthNorth and implemented in cooperation with a local NGO. SouthSouthNorth is a public-private network for sustainable development. It was established in 1999 by researchers and government representatives during the fifth climate change conference in Bonn. SouthSouthNorth has adaptation and climate protection efforts underway exist in Brazil, Bangladesh, South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique and Indonesia.
Source: SouthSouthNorth: http://www.southsouthnorth.org/
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