We’ve seen the NYT coverage and are following the relevant issues it covers (e.g. insecticide resistance, for which we include an adjustment in our modeling). We wrote a bit about the news coverage here (https://twitter.com/GiveWell/status/1709634481047425423). The bottom line is that we continue to think the Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium’s SMC program are great opportunities for donors.
This is Isabel Arjmand from GiveWell. Thanks for the question!
We continue to recommend both the Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) program as top charities (https://www.givewell.org/charities/top-charities). We’re also looking at other ways to reduce the burden of malaria, and are supporting programs like vaccine rollouts where we see promising opportunities (e.g. these two grants: https://www.givewell.org/research/grants/PATH-malaria-vaccines-January-2022, https://www.givewell.org/research/grants/PATH-perennial-malaria-chemoprevention-rtss-malaria-vaccine-study-february-2023).
We’ve seen the NYT coverage and are following the relevant issues it covers (e.g. insecticide resistance, for which we include an adjustment in our modeling). We wrote a bit about the news coverage here (https://twitter.com/GiveWell/status/1709634481047425423). The bottom line is that we continue to think the Against Malaria Foundation and Malaria Consortium’s SMC program are great opportunities for donors.
GiveWell is being a bit modest here. They have been studying the resistance issue since 2012! [1] [2]
Great, thanks so much!