The economic and

social burden of
malaria
Patrcia Gonzaga Paulino
Master Student at UFRRJ

Advisor: Huarrisson Azevedo Santos

Article

What is Malaria?
Plasmodium falciparum in ringed form inside red blood
cells.

About the history

Hippocrates
has
made
the
relation of the fever disease and
swamps, also has classified the
fever as quotidian, tertian and
quartan.
In
the
Roman
times,
Malaria was known as BAD
AIR FEVER.
MAL AIRE in Italian.
Source: Wordinfo.info

Famous people who had Malaria

Lord Byron
1824

Alexander
323 a.C.

Dante Alighieri
1321

J. Kennedy
1963

Vasco da Gama
1524

Pedro
Bial
Source:
Ranker.com
still alive

What are the symptoms?

An adult with Malaria

in Ethiopia.
Source: Medical gallery of Mikael Hggstrm 2014.

Malaria treatment key events in

timeline

Nature Reviews / Drugs Discovery

Malaria Prevention

How is the Malaria

world situation
nowadays?

Why is Malaria still a

problem?

Climate Changes

Health care conditions

Philippines

Congo
Source: Doctor without borders

Source: World Health

Thailand
Source: www.cdc.gov

Nigeria
Source: Medicine sans frontiere

Puducherry, India
Source: The hindu news

Organization

Poverty

Brazil
Nigeria

Somalia
Source: The Guardian

Source: www.emaze.com

Is Malaria the Poverty cause? Or

Is Malaria caused by Poverty?

Economical Impact in Malaria Regions

People are afraid to visit

malaria regions.
Source: globalizationnews.com

Economical impact in Africa

Investments up to US$1.4
billions
The largest foreign
investment so far in
Mozambique.
Source: www.chinacsmap.org

Conclusion

Malaria is still a huge burden for the

tropical countries especially in
Africa.

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