Why malaria is so COSTLY: a look at malaria and human resource

Apart from direct human pain and suffering, malaria also destroys human resources indirectly. These indirect losses are hard to be measured in dollars. For families, malaria makes children absent from schools and increases risks in pregnancy for mothers as well as children. For households, malaria keeps farmers to plant subsistence crops rather than labour-intensive crops in harvest season. For investors, malaria is the reason that they avoid to invest in malaria infected regions. For, tourist industry, malaria is huge obstacle to attract tourists to visit such areas. The trap of malaria has become a part of everyday life in many African communities.