Africa Fighting Malaria
Works to ensure that no African child dies from malaria, by advocating for effective, integrated, country-driven malaria control and encouraging the use of safe and effective anti-malarial drugs and insecticides.Malaria, a preventable and curable disease, is the number one cause of death for African children under the age of five. Africa Fighting Malaria (AFM) believes that the power of advocacy is in driving change that helps many people at once. Our work helped to increase public resources for malaria control and also improved the oversight of how governments and donor agencies implement malaria solutions. We ensure that money spent for malaria control is money spent wisely.
Malaria control expenditures have increased, thanks in part to our work. Yet many programs still focus primarily on insecticide-treated bed nets, which is just one strategy. Access to safe and effective drugs and insecticides are also critical components to stopping needless deaths and eliminating malaria.
AFM provides critical support for many malaria control programs in Africa that use public health insecticides as part of their control efforts. AFM also plays a leading role in calling for the use of newer and more effective artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) for malaria. Many public agencies have responded, but in rural Africa, most families get their malaria drugs from private shops. These shops are not well regulated and often contain drugs of poor quality. AFM wants to ensure that every African child has access to safe and effective drugs.
Contact Information
Africa Fighting Malaria (U.S.)1150 Seventeenth Street, NW
Suite 910
Washington DC, 20036
U.S.A.
T: (202) 223-3298
F: (202) 223-3646
E: rtren@fightingmalaria.org
www.fightingmalaria.org
Africa Fighting Malaria
P.O. Box 17156, Congella
4013, South Africa
T: +27 83 776 3820
Financial Information
Africa Fighting Malaria is classified as a 501(c)(3) organization. Click below to view our most recent independent audit and IRS Form 990.
Banner photo: Malaria is the number one killer of African children.
Your donation to AFM will help us:
• Raise awareness about bad drugs in Africa and help ensure that every African has access to safe and effective anti-malarial and pneumonia drugs.
• Respond to research and/or activist pressure that may seek to limit and undermine the use of public health insecticides in malaria control.
Donations for treatments will go towards AFM’s broad-based campaign, the March of Washingtons. This campaign is focused on purchasing and testing malaria and pneumonia drugs in Africa. The campaign is named for George Washington, who had malaria, who died of pneumonia, and whose face is on the one dollar bill. For every one dollar raised, Africa Fighting Malaria will:
• Provide a trusted and reliable clinic in Africa with safe and effective treatments for both malaria and pneumonia. These treatments will be distributed to patients in need and in areas where there is little or no other access to treatment.
• Conduct quality control testing of malaria drugs on the market in Africa.
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To donate to this member charity by check, please print our designation form and mail it with your check to
Aid for Africa
P.O. Box 8734
Topeka, KS 66608
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