Africa Fighting Malaria

Africa Fighting Malaria

Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) is an NGO based in Washington DC and South Africa which states it "seeks to educate people about the scourge of Malaria and the political economy of malaria control". Founded in 2000 during the Stockholm Negotiations on Persistent Organic Pollutants, AFM's original focus was the promotion of a public health exemption for the insecticide DDT for malaria control. According to its current website, its mission is to "make malaria control more transparent, responsive and effective by holding public institutions accountable for funding and implementing effective, integrated and country-driven malaria control policies."

Overview

Formed in 2000, AFM's staff members have current or former links with a range of right-wing and free market think tanks including the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Institute of Economic Affairs and Tech Central Station, organisations that are all critical of environment movements, as is AFM itself.

AFM promotes the pesticide DDT as one of the most effective means of fighting malaria. It asserts that global health organizations must be free to employ all available tools to fight malaria and that the limited use of DDT for spraying homes and hospitals is a powerful and necessary tool in this fight.

AFM ran a "Save Children From Malaria" campaign designed to prevent the Stockholm Convention from banning the use of DDT. The coalition consisted of :

* Competitive Enterprise Institute
* Africa Fighting Malaria
* European Science and Environment Forum
* Liberty Institute
* Center for Dissemination of Economic Knowledge (CEDICE)

Funding

On its website AFM states that it "receives its funding from a number of different sources, however because of the nature of our work we have a policy of not accepting funds from any government, the insectcides industry or the pharmaceutical industry".

Funders listed on the AFM website [ [http://www.fightingmalaria.org/funding.aspx AFM wbsite: Funding] ] include :
* Anglo American Chairman's Fund - a mining corporation.
* BHP Billiton plc - a mining corporation.
* The Earhart Foundation
* Hedge Funds vs. Malaria
* The Ohrstrom Foundation
* The Thiel Foundation
* The Swordspoint Foundation

According Sourcewatch, [ [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Africa_Fighting_Malaria Sourcewatch: Africa Fighting Malaria] ] funders not disclosed on the AFM website include:
* European Science and Environment Forum
* The Gelman Foundation
* International Policy Network
* The Marit and Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation

According to Greenpeace, [ [http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=125 Exxon Secrets: Africa Fighting Malaria] ] AFM has also received funding from:
* Exxon Mobil Foundation

Links to tobacco industry

Documents in the Legacy Tobacco Document Archive [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/] show that in the planning stages AFM unsuccessfully sought the support of the tobacco industry, which hoped to divert resources from efforts by the World Health Organization to reduce smoking. [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/action/search/basic?fd=0&q=%22Africa+Fighting+malaria%22&df=er&c=at&c=bw&c=ct&c=ll&c=pm&c=rj&c=ti&c=da&c=mg&c=ub&c=mm] [http://ltdlimages.library.ucsf.edu/imagesz/z/v/p/zvp83c00/Szvp83c00.pdf#search=%22roger%20malaria%20bate%22] .

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* Roger Bate - A fellow of the American Enterprise Institute and Competitive Enterprise Institute, and founder of the European Science and Environment Forum.
* Philip Coticelli
* Lorraine Mooney - Previously director of the European Science and Environment Forum.
* Francois Maartens
* Carlos Odora [ [http://allafrica.com/stories/200712190037.html allAfrica.com: Uganda: A Decent Standard of Living Will Help Eradicate Malaria (Page 1 of 1) ] ]
* Richard Tren - Director. Also a fellow of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and analyst for the Free Market Foundation.
* Jasson Urbach - South African Director. Also affliated with the Free Market Foundation

Board

* Roger Bate
* Richard Tren
* Lance Laifer - co-founder of Hegde Fund vs. Malaria
* Gerry Ohrstrom - of the Ohrstrom Foundation, Inc. Also affiliated with the Reason Foundation, the Property and Environment Research Center, the International Policy Network, and the American Council on Science and Health.
* Donald Roberts - an emeritus professor of tropical public health at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

References

External links

* [http://www.fightingmalaria.org Official website]
* [http://www.MadnessAgainstMalaria.com/AFM Africa Fighting Malaria team] in the [http://www.madnessagainstmalaria.com/en/default.aspx Madness Against Malaria Tournament]


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