Against Malaria Foundation

United Kingdom-based charity

Against Malaria Foundation

Founded| August 2004; 20 years ago (August 2004)[1]
Founder| Rob Mather
Purpose| Preventing malaria
Location|

* London, United Kingdom

Area served

| Sub-Saharan Africa, Papua New Guinea
Website| www.againstmalaria.com

The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) is a United-Kingdom based charity[2] that provides long-lasting insecticidal nets to populations at high risk of malaria, primarily in Africa. The foundation has distributed more than 200 million nets since its creation.[3]

Nets are distributed through partnerships with the International Red Cross, the Malaria Consortium, and others, with partners responsible for the costs of distribution. Distributions include malaria education for the local population, and they are documented through reports, photos, and video.[4] Post-distribution check-ups are conducted by independent survey partners to assess net usage and conditions, typically after 9, 18 and 27 months.[4]

AMF has eight trustees and an advisory committee drawn from malaria experts around the world.[5][6] The charity is registered in the United Kingdom and governed by the laws of England and Wales. It is also registered in sixteen other countries, including the US, Germany, Canada, Japan, and South Korea.[7] It is named a top charity by GiveWell.[8]

## History

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People receiving anti-malarial nets in Malawi

The World Swim Against Malaria was the brainchild of Rob Mather, a London-based strategy consultant. Mather had earlier organized a swim to raise money for a two-year-old girl who was badly burned in a house fire. Held in December 2003, the "Swim for Terri"[9] started as a three-person fundraiser and grew to include 10,000 swimmers in 73 countries.[10]

AMF was founded in 2004 in London.[11] It is rated as a highly cost-effective charity by GiveWell.[12][13][14] AMF was chosen as one of GiveWell's two highest-recommended charities (along with the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) in 2011 and has continued to be recommended by GiveWell since then.[15] GiveWell estimated in 2023 that AMF's bed net program costs on average US$5,500 per life saved.[16]

## Operations

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Countries served by AMF include Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. Each net typically costs around US$5 to buy and distribute.[16]

## Partners and supporters

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AMF is supported by more than 100 corporations.[17] AMF's founding partners are PwC, Citigroup, Speedo, Microsoft, Allen & Overy, Attenda, Vestergaard Frandsen, and Sumitomo Chemical. Speedo also partnered with AMF's precursor organization, World Swim Against Malaria, and continues to raise money for bednets through swimming events.[18] AMF has also received more than 50 million US dollars from Open Philanthropy.[19]

AMF's works with partners such as Concern Universal, IMA World Health, and Episcopal Relief & Development.[20]

In March 2023, AMF reported a milestone of fundraising $500 million, coming from 919,371 donations from 185,318 people.[21]

## References

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1. ^ "History". Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
2. ^ "THE AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION - Charity 1105319". register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
3. ^ "$500,000,000 raised!". Against Malaria Foundation. 2023-03-02.
4. ^ a b "Against Malaria Foundation". GiveWell. December 2023. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
5. ^ "Trustees". Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
6. ^ "Malaria Advisory Group". Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
7. ^ "Registered Charity Status". Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
8. ^ "Our Top Charities". GiveWell.
9. ^ "homepage". Swim for Terri.
10. ^ "FAQ". World Swim Against Malaria. Archived from the original on 18 February 2013. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
11. ^ "THE AGAINST MALARIA FOUNDATION overview". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
12. ^ Thompson, Derek (15 June 2015). "The Most Efficient Way to Save a Life". The Atlantic. The Atlantic Monthly Group. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
13. ^ Matthews, Dylan (24 April 2015). "You have $8 billion. You want to do as much good as possible. What do you do?". Vox. Vox Media, Inc. Retrieved 18 March 2017.
14. ^ "Our Top Charities". GiveWell. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
15. ^ Fenwick, Alan (1 May 2017). "Schistosomiasis research and control since the retirement of Sir Patrick Manson in 1914". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 111 (5): 191–198\. doi:10.1093/trstmh/trx036. PMC 5914372. PMID 28957468. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
16. ^ a b "Our Top Charities | Nets to prevent malaria". Givewell. Archived from the original on 2024-08-22.
17. ^ "Pro bono support". Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
18. ^ "Speedo World Swim". Against Malaria Foundation. Archived from the original on 18 June 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
19. ^ "Grants". Open Philanthropy. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
20. ^ "Distribution Partners". Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
21. ^ "Against Malaria: $500,000,000 raised!". The Against Malaria Foundation. Retrieved 2023-03-12.

## External links

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* Official website
* AMF Korea website
* "Against Malaria Foundation, registered charity no. 1105319". Charity Commission for England and Wales.

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Malaria

Biology|

* Malaria
* Cerebral
* Quartan fever
* Blackwater fever
* Pregnancy-associated
* Plasmodium
* biology
* life cycle
* vivax
* falciparum
* ovale
* malariae
* knowlesi
* Anopheles mosquito
* Life cycle
* Schizont
* Merozoite
* Hypnozoite
* Gametocyte

Control and prevention|

* Public health
* DDT
* Mosquito net
* Malaria prophylaxis
* Mosquito control
* Sterile insect technique
* Genetic resistance
* Duffy antigen
* Sickle-cell anaemia
* Thalassemia
* G6PDH deficiency
* Malaria vaccine
* RTS,S

Diagnosis and treatment|

* Diagnosis of malaria
* Malaria culture
* Blood film
* Malaria antigen detection tests

* Antimalarials
* Artemisinin
* Mefloquine
* Proguanil

Society and malaria|

* Diseases of poverty
* Millennium Development Goals
* History of malaria
* Roman fever
* National Malaria Eradication Program
* World Malaria Day
* Epidemiology
* Malaria in the Caribbean
* Malaria in Mandatory Palestine
* Malaria Atlas Project

Organisations|

* Malaria Consortium
* Against Malaria Foundation
* Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
* Imagine No Malaria
* Malaria No More
* Africa Fighting Malaria
* African Malaria Network Trust
* South African Malaria Initiative
* African Leaders Malaria Alliance
* Amazon Malaria Initiative
* The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
* Medicines for Malaria Venture
* European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership

Category

* v
* t
* e

Effective altruism

Concepts|

* Aid effectiveness
* Charity assessment
* Demandingness objection
* Disability-adjusted life year
* Disease burden
* Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis
* Earning to give
* Equal consideration of interests
* Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio
* Longtermism
* Marginal utility
* Moral circle expansion
* Psychological barriers to effective altruism
* Quality-adjusted life year
* Utilitarianism
* Venture philanthropy

Key figures|

* Sam Bankman-Fried
* Liv Boeree
* Nick Bostrom
* Hilary Greaves
* Holden Karnofsky
* William MacAskill
* Dustin Moskovitz
* Yew-Kwang Ng
* Toby Ord
* Derek Parfit
* Kelsey Piper
* Peter Singer
* Cari Tuna
* Eliezer Yudkowsky

Organizations|

* 80,000 Hours
* Against Malaria Foundation
* Animal Charity Evaluators
* Animal Ethics
* Centre for Effective Altruism
* Centre for Enabling EA Learning & Research
* Center for High Impact Philanthropy
* Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
* Development Media International
* Evidence Action
* Faunalytics
* Fistula Foundation
* Future of Humanity Institute
* Future of Life Institute
* Founders Pledge
* GiveDirectly
* GiveWell
* Giving Multiplier
* Giving What We Can
* Good Food Fund
* The Good Food Institute
* Good Ventures
* The Humane League
* Mercy for Animals
* Machine Intelligence Research Institute
* Malaria Consortium
* Open Philanthropy
* Raising for Effective Giving
* Sentience Institute
* Unlimit Health
* Wild Animal Initiative

Focus areas|

* Biotechnology risk
* Climate change
* Cultured meat
* Economic stability
* Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
* Global catastrophic risk
* Global health
* Global poverty
* Intensive animal farming
* Land use reform
* Life extension
* Malaria prevention
* Mass deworming
* Neglected tropical diseases
* Risk of astronomical suffering
* Wild animal suffering

Literature|

* Doing Good Better
* The End of Animal Farming
* Famine, Affluence, and Morality
* The Life You Can Save
* Living High and Letting Die
* The Most Good You Can Do
* Practical Ethics
* The Precipice
* Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
* What We Owe the Future

Events|

* Effective Altruism Global

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