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These overlapping drivers contribute to expanding sand fly habitats, degrading living conditions, and weakening health systems, increasing transmission. Rising global temperatures further facilitate vector expansion into new regions, where clinical unfamiliarity often leads to misdiagnosis, delayed treatment, increased morbidity, and greater financial burden. Despite its rising incidence and global spread, CL remains a neglected tropical disease since it is seldom fatal, with scant interest by public health authorities and financial donors, limiting activities that further research and prevent spread of the disease. This review synthesizes current evidence on how geopolitical instability, forced migration, and climate-driven ecological changes collectively reshape CL epidemiology and complicate diagnosis, treatment, and surveillance. 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