Africa Fighting Malaria

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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".

Contents 1 Overview 2 Funding 3 Staff 4 External links

[edit] Overview

Formed in 2000, AFM's staff members have current or former links with a range of right-wing or 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 the 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)

[edit] 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 include :

• Anglo American Chairman's Fund
• BHP Billiton plc
• The Earhart Foundation
• European Science and Environment Forum
• The Gelman Foundation
• International Policy Network
• The Marit and Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation

[edit] Staff

• Richard Tren
• Roger Bate
• Philip Coticelli

[edit] External links

• www.fightingmalaria.org The website of Africa Fighting Malaria.
• Africa Fighting Malaria at SourceWatch
• [1] Africa Fighting Malaria Team in Madness Against Malaria Tournament.

This article uses content from the SourceWatch article on Africa Fighting Malaria under the terms of the GFDL.