Forbes November 14, 2024
When I visited Dhaka in July this year, the city was wrapped in the thick humidity and heat of the monsoon season. The air felt heavy and warm as I walked with a community health worker through the winding, makeshift neighborhoods of one of the huge informal settlements that ring Bangladesh’s capital.
I arrived at the settlement well aware of the social, economic and health-related risk factors that have fueled the spread of tuberculosis (TB) for centuries. But when every single TB patient I spoke with shared that they had been driven to Dhaka by the consequences of extreme weather or failing farmlands, the urgent need to place health as a central focus in climate policy was made starkly clear....
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