ARUSHA – The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund), African civil societies and communities disproportionately affected by infectious diseases came together yesterday at the 18th International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation to Climate Change (CBA18) in Arusha, Tanzania, to reaffirm their strong commitment to increase collaboration for building and strengthening climate-resilient health systems in the face of climate change.

The CBA18 is a forum where participants share lessons learned and best practices on community-based and locally led adaptation approaches to climate change. Together, they explore avenues to put the principles for locally led adaptation into practice for a climate-resilient future.