Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) is an NGO based in South Africa which states it "seeks to educate people about the scourge of Malaria and the political economy of malaria control." AFM was formed in 2000. NGO is an abbreviation or code for: Non-governmental organization Nagoya Airport (IATA code) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Red blood cell infected with Malaria ,derived from mala aria (Italian: bad air) and formerly called ague or marsh fever in English) is an infectious disease which causes about 350-500 million infections with humans and approximately 1. ...

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. DDT was the first modern pesticide and is arguably the most well known organic pesticide. ...

AFM ran a "Save Children From Malaria" campaign designed to prevent the Stockholm Convention from banning the use of DDT. The coalition consisted of Stockholm Convention is an international agreement on persistent organic pollutants (POPs). ...

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

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is a non-profit public policy organization founded in 1984 and dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. ... Liberty Institute is Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation. ...

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." This is a list of pharmaceutical and biotech companies that are major manufacturers on global or national markets : Abbott Laboratories Able Laboratories Akzo Nobel Allergan Almirall Prodesfarma Alphapharm Altana (previously Byk Gulden) ALZA, part of Johnson & Johnson Amgen AstraZeneca, formed from the merger of Astra AB and Zeneca Group PLC...

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

The Earhart Foundation is a foundation that funds research and scholarship. ... The International Policy Network (IPN) is a non-profit organisation based in the United Kingdom. ...

Staff

• Richard Tren
• Roger Bate
• Jennifer Zambone

See also

www.sourcewatch.org A watchdog monitoring industry lobby groups.

External links

www.fightingmalaria.org The website of Africa Fighting Malaria.

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