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‘Malaria is the epidemic of the poor’. Lewis 9C2
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he statement ‘malaria is the epidemic of the poor’ indicates malaria and poverty are very closely related, and that malaria leads to poverty and poverty leads to the malaria disease.
malaria is often referred to as the epidemic of the poor. Whilst the disease is heavily determined by climate and ecology, and not poverty per se, the impact of malaria takes its toll on the poorest, those least able to afford preventative and
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medical treatment. According to UN economists, malaria is one of the four causes of poverty. Each year it kills approximately three million people, and it is estimated to cost Africa 30 billion dollars per year. Professor Jeffrey Sachs, author of ‘End of
