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". The main focus of the organization is the promotion of the pesticide DDT for malaria control.

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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)

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^[1] include :

• Anglo American Chairman's Fund
• BHP Billiton plc
• The Earhart Foundation
• Hedge Funds vs. Malaria
• The Ohrstrom Foundation
• The Thiel Foundation
• The Swordspoint Foundation

According Sourcewatch,^[2] 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,^[3] AFM has also received funding from:

• Exxon Mobil Foundation

Links to tobacco industry

Documents in the Legacy Tobacco Document Archive [1] show that in the planning stages AFM sought the support of the tobacco industry, which hoped to divert resources from efforts by the World Health Organization to reduce smoking. [2] [3] [4].

Staff

• Roger Bate
• Philip Coticelli
• Richard Tren
• Jasson Urbach
• Carlos Odora^[4]

References

1. ^ AFM wbsite: Funding
2. ^ Sourcewatch: Africa Fighting Malaria
3. ^ Exxon Secrets: Africa Fighting Malaria
4. ^ http://allafrica.com/stories/200712190037.html

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