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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 Tank s 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 :
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 AFM wbsite: Funding include :
According Sourcewatch , Sourcewatch: Africa Fighting Malaria funders not disclosed on the AFM website include:
According to Greenpeace, Exxon Secrets: Africa Fighting Malaria AFM has also received funding from: LINKS TO TOBACCO INDUSTRY Documents in the Legacy Tobacco Document Archive 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. [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/action/search/basic?fd=0&q=%22Africa+Fighting+malaria%22&df=er&c=at&c=bw&c=ct&c=ll&c=pm&c=rj&c=ti&c=da&c=mg&c=ub&c=mm [http://rabett.blogspot.com/2007/05/original-sin-tobacco-denialism-is.html . STAFF REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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