Impacts of Malaria

• High percentage of a family’s income may be spent on doctors’ visits/drugs this reduces the amount of money which can be spent on food/education.
• Breeding season of mosquitoes coincides with harvesting time. If families can’t harvest crops, this leads to malnutrition
• High proportion of nations GDP is spent on combatting disease leaving less to spend on improving infrastructure.
• Being too ill to attend school leads to lower literacy rates, and this can lead to a less skilled workforce in the future.
• Tourists may avoid the area reducing revenue from visitors.
• Foreign companies may not invest in the area due to an unreliable workforce.