Colombia

Climate Variability and Human Health Impacts in Colombia

The highlights are as follows:

• Temperature strongly affects the life cycle of Anopheles albimanus, a major malaria vector in Colombia.
• Modelling efforts support the importance of temperature in explaining malaria incidence in Colombia.

For more details, see:

Presentation (.ppt) for Colombia - Jan. 2003

The presentations for the entire CRN for January 2003 may be found under CHIEX Publications. See the Presentations for 2003 at the IAI Meeting in Mendoza, Argentina in January 27-28, 2003.