Malaria dissertation

Specific attention was given to causes of malaria in the lake Bosomtwe area as unsanitary practices, ignorance and lack of protective devices. Poverty and death were explored in this research as the major effects of malaria on the inhabitants.

Each year more than 300 million cases of malaria are diagnosed, and more than 1.5 million die of the disease. f1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT The Bosomtwe district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana is a peri-urban district which is located south of the Kumasi metropolis. The tribe is largely of the Asantes. The population that is unemployed is high.

Malaria is usually a human cause disease. The conceptual framework in figure 1.1 helps in understanding how fmalaria is cause and its effects on the people of the study area. This conceptual framework reveals that, malaria is cause by poor sanitation.

Endemic in ninety-one countries, accounting for forty percent of the world’s population, malaria affects an estimated three hundred million people. Though in most cases treatable, malaria is responsible for more than a million deaths per year.