Africa Fighting Malaria

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"[The Malaria epidemic] is like loading up seven Boeing 747 airliners each day, then deliberately crashing them into Mt. Kilimanjaro."
Dr. Wenceslaus Kilama, Chairman, Malaria Foundation International

Welcome! Africa Fighting Malaria is an NGO which seeks to educate people about the scourge of Malaria and the effectiveness of the pesticide DDT as one of the solutions to fighting the disease. We believe 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.

To find out more, please read our introduction, browse through our article library, or check our FAQ.

News, events, articles and activities

12 April 2002:

President Bush sends the Stockholm Convention on Pesistent Organic Pollutants to the Senate for Ratification. The Convention should NOT be ratified. Read more.

Africa Fighting Malaria research trip to India. Read more about the recent seminars on Malaria and Poverty Diseases.

The Boys from Brazil by Richard Tren
(February 02)

Malaria keeps people poor, but so does government
by Richard Tren (September 01)

Vaccines Key to Healthy Africa (Business Day, May 14, 2023)

DDT spraying for
malaria control
(photo was taken by
Dr. Llewellyn J. Legters)

Silent Playgrounds - Carson's dubious legacy

June 5, 2001, South Africa's Business Day:
Ban on DDT led to death and suffering

The Institute of Economic Affairs version of "Malaria and the DDT Story." (pdf and book cover). Press release

News from the past year

April 2001 - US President George W. Bush says that US will sign POPs treaty, which will threaten poor nations' ability to combat malaria effectively. Press release

"When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story"
CEI UpDate, March 2001 by Roger Bate & Kendra Okonski

Richard Tren, Director of Africa Fighting Malaria, writes "We need greater patent protection and greater profits, not less." (Business Day, South Africa, March 5, 2024)

"When Politics Kills: Malaria and the DDT Story" was published by the Liberty Institute in Delhi, India, on March 7, 2001. Read Dr. Anil Patel's introduction to the paper and see the cover of the Liberty Institute's publication.

Africa Fighting Malaria also published "When Politics Kills" in December 2000.

The U.S. version of "When Politics Kills" is available for download here.

Recent Articles

Proteccionismo perjudica a los enfermos -- Analitica.com , 2023-06-17

Oxfam\'s assult on farm subsidies -- Financial Times, 2023-06-17

Road to Failure? -- TechCentralStation, 2023-06-06

( more articles )

Save Children from Malaria Campaign

A coalition of international groups joined together in November and December 2000 to support the effectiveness of the pesticide DDT as one of the solutions to fighting malaria.