Giving Compass' Take:

• Peter Sands, executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, declared that climate change is posing challenges for global health professionals to end epidemics. 

• What are the links between climate change and epidemics? What are the implications for donors to help with both climate change-related disaster relief efforts and global health issues?

• Read about how climate shocks could cause HIV rates to rise in Africa. 

There is one key factor hampering progress on global health efforts that is set to only get worse: climate change.

, said Tuesday that climate change is making it more difficult to eradicate deadly epidemics.

Rising temperatures help mosquitoes spread malaria at a higher altitude in Africa. These temperatures also warm ocean surface waters, which increase the intensity and frequency of storms, Reuters reported.

Intense cyclones, which result in increased infections — as seen when Cyclone Idai hit Mozambique in March, followed by Cyclone Kenneth, only weeks later — present other significant obstacles, too.

The Global Fund is a partnership of governments, civil society, technical agencies, and the private sector, committed to ending AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria by 2030.

Climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 additional deaths per year from 2030 to 2050, due to malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and heat stress, according to the World Health Organization.

A number of recent studies demonstrate the risk of climate change on global health, including a study by the medical journal Lancet, which showed that millions of people are vulnerable to heat-related disease and death.

Read the full article about climate change exacerbates epidemics by Jacky Habib at Global Citizen.