Impacts

• Symptoms of malaria: Head aches, nausea, stomach pains, high temperatures, fever, sweating, swollen spleen, kidney failure, anaemia, fatigue, convulsions, coma and death
• Work absenteeism increases, reducing productivity and the reliability of supply to customers
• Crop production is affected either due to the absenteeism or inability to put in effective effort levels
• Farmers planting subsistance crops instead of more labour intensive cash crops as they have a reduced ability to look after them
• Breeding season of mosquitos coincides with harvesting time, if families can't harvest crops it leads to malnutrition
• Foreign investment is inhibited because companies employees are unwilling to travel to malaria endemic areas (either to source, investigate or take place in management)
• Companies are unwilling to invest if products/production cannot be garunteed
• Tourism is severely restricted as travellers are reluctant to visit malaria endemic areas. As a result, benefits linked to tourism don't happen (e.g. revenue, building facilities, infrastructure projects, employment, local and national economic boosts)
• Increases in school absenteeism, through illness or pupils having to care and provide for sick family members. Reduces level of education of working age group = limits possible industrial or technological advances within the nation
• High proportion of nations GDP spent on combatting malaria leaving less to spend on improving infrastructure or education