Essay Against Malaria

Implications of the main solution

A social implication of a vaccine against malaria is that thousands of people would be protected from malaria and death every year. Malaria is accountable for a minimum of 350 million illnesses and of which100 million results in death each year. Even a reasonably effective anti-malaria vaccine would decrease malaria and the number of deaths massively. Additionally, the infection hamper children’s social development and education through permanent neurological injury linked with severe incidents of malaria. By considerably reducing the number of illnesses and deaths associated with malaria, a vaccine would reduce these social implications.

Another positive implication would be a possible decrease in personal expenses on treatment of malaria and prevention of malaria. However, currently direct fees of the infection including bed nets, anti-malarial drugs, transportation to health facilities and medical fees, make up a vital proportion of household costs in certain parts of the world, where malaria is endemic. For instance, a report shows that the average direct fees of the infection were 7.1% of monthly spending. That’s only 2.9% of the total income to disastrous households. Therefore, in malaria endemic countries, a vaccine would reduce the burden of household poverty.

Also by decreasing the cases of malaria, a vaccine will have positive effects for the economy of where malaria is endemic. Malaria is known to be a cause of poverty and a disease of financial crisis.

Alternative solutions

There are many alternatives for a vaccine in order to control malaria. This involves treating those infected and controlling the mosquito vectors. Antimalarial drugs are used, in order to treat those with the...

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...he problems with the bed net is that they have to frequently re-treat roughly every 6 months to a year, this is very problematic to sustain. Another problem with insecticide treated bed nets is, that they’re expensive, due to a large proportion of people, at threat with malaria, are not financially able to afford the insecticide treated bed nets. In a few areas where the insecticide treated bed nets are currently used, it has been predicted that fewer than 5 % of bed nets are re-treated appropriately to attain their estimated impact. The insecticide treated bed nets are one of the best effective controlling strategies for malaria. Unfortunately, the distribution of the insecticide treated bed nets; to all of those at risk populations would cost roughly £285 million each year. Even though the bed nets have an instant effect, they don’t provide a long-term solution.