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Against Malaria Foundation

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The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) is a British charity that provides funding for mass distribution of long-lasting insecticide-treated nets (LLINs) to populations at high risk of malaria.

History

In June 2003, Rob Mather, a strategy consultant based in London, decided to organize a swim with two of his friends to raise funds for a girl who had suffered severe burns in a house fire. Over the following months, Mather’s initiative grew in size and scope, eventually leading to the creation of World Swim Against Malaria (WSAM), which organized a quarter of a million swims in around 160 countries. In August 2004, Mather set up AMF to handle the money raised through WSAM and to raise funds in ways other than swimming.[1][2]

AMF continues to operate mostly as it did when it first launched. Although registered as a charity in 12 countries, AMF has no offices, but is run from the back room of Mather’s house.[3]

Activities

In addition to funding distribution of nets, AMF has more recently supported research on piperonyl butoxide (PBO) nets, a new type of LLIN.[4] Mosquito populations appear to have become more resistant to standard insecticides. According to GiveWell’s rough estimates, this resistance has reduced the effectiveness of insecticide-treated nets by one-third in the areas where AMF operates.[5] Against resistant mosquitoes, PBO nets appear to be more effective than standard insecticide-treated nets. An AMF-funded trial—the largest such trial to assess the effectiveness of PBO nets to date—found that PBO nets reduced malaria 26%, 27% and 16% more than did conventional LLINs after 6, 12 and 18 months, respectively.[6]

Evaluation

As of July 2022, GiveWell estimates that AMF can deliver a LLIN at a cost of about $5, and that a donation to AMF has an average cost-effectiveness of $5,500 per life saved.[7][8][9] (The cost of delivering a net is much lower than the cost of saving a life because a small fraction of people who receive a net would otherwise have died of malaria, and because of other factors.)[8]

AMF has been a GiveWell top-rated charity every year since 2010, with the exception of 2013, when it was excluded from their ranking due to lack of room for more funding .[10] AMF is also included in The Life You Can Save’s list of “best charities”.[11]

As of June 2022, AMF has received over $58 million in funding from Open Philanthropy,[12] and over $6.5 million from Effective Altruism Funds.[13][14][15]

AMF is a highly transparent organization. The AMF website lists every donation received[16] and every LLIN distributed,[17] as well as other pertinent information.[18]

Further reading

Freeman, Luke (2022) The journey to founding one of the world’s most effective charities | Rob Mather, AMF, Giving What We Can, August 24.

GiveWell (2021) Against Malaria Foundation, GiveWell, November.

Sánchez, Sebastián et al (2021) Timeline of Against Malaria Foundation, Timelines Wiki.

External links

Against Malaria Foundation. Official website.

Donate to Against Malaria Foundation.

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    Against Malaria Foundation (2010) About us, Against Malaria Foundation.

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    Against Malaria Foundation (2021) History, Against Malaria Foundation.

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    Mather, Rob (2020) AMA: Rob Mather, founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation, Effective Altruism Forum, January 22.

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    GiveWell (2020) Insecticide resistance and malaria control, GiveWell, November.

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    Sherratt, Peter (2019) PBO net trial results released (to 18 months), Against Malaria Foundation, November 21.

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    GiveWell (2022) Our top charities, GiveWell, July.

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    GiveWell (2022) How we produce impact estimates, GiveWell, July.

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    The Life You Can Save (2021) Against Malaria Foundation, The Life You Can Save.

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    Open Philanthropy (2022) Grants database: Against Malaria Foundation, Open Philanthropy.

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    Global Health and Development Fund (2017) April 2017: Against Malaria Foundation, Effective Altruism Funds, April.

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    Global Health and Development Fund (2021) February 2021: Global Health and Development Fund grants, Effective Altruism Funds, February.

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    Global Health and Development Fund (2022) January 2022: Against Malaria Foundation, Effective Altruism Funds, January.

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    Against Malaria Foundation (2021) Sponsors and donors, Against Malaria Foundation.

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    Against Malaria Foundation (2021) Net distributions — world, Against Malaria Foundation.

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    Against Malaria Foundation (2021) Transparency, Against Malaria Foundation.

[TODAY] Q&A Event with AMF and Malaria Con­sor­tium: World Malaria Day 2023

Giving What We Can25 Apr 2023 10:18 UTC
12 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

AMA: Rob Mather, founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foundation

RobM22 Jan 2020 21:40 UTC
82 points
47 comments2 min readEA link

A dozen doubts about GiveWell’s numbers

JoelMcGuire1 Nov 2022 2:25 UTC
134 points
18 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

The elephant in the bed­net: the im­por­tance of philos­o­phy when choos­ing be­tween ex­tend­ing and im­prov­ing lives

MichaelPlant18 Nov 2022 12:09 UTC
150 points
40 comments24 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

We es­ti­mate GiveWell donors’ $15.3 mil­lion to the Against Malaria Foun­da­tion will save over 3,000 lives

GiveWell16 Oct 2020 9:31 UTC
17 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(blog.givewell.org)

[Question] What are your ques­tions for World Malaria Day with Rob Mather (AMF), Maddy Maras­ciulo (Malaria Con­sor­tium), and Alekos Si­moni (Tar­get Malaria)?

Luke Freeman20 Apr 2021 3:18 UTC
17 points
11 comments1 min readEA link

Found­ing the Against Malaria Foun­da­tion: Rob Mather’s story

Giving What We Can30 Aug 2022 1:23 UTC
51 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(youtu.be)

[Question] ITBN availa­bil­ity

Kaleem19 Jan 2024 15:09 UTC
9 points
8 comments1 min readEA link

How to Stop The Dead­liest An­i­mal on Earth (A Hap­pier World video)

Jeroen Willems4 Jul 2021 15:55 UTC
16 points
7 comments8 min readEA link

There are no peo­ple to be effec­tively al­tru­is­tic for on a dead planet: EA fund­ing of pro­jects with­out con­duct­ing En­vi­ron­men­tal Im­pact Assess­ments (EIAs), Health and Safety Assess­ments (HSAs) and Life Cy­cle Assess­ments (LCAs) = catastrophe

Deborah W.A. Foulkes26 May 2022 23:46 UTC
11 points
19 comments8 min readEA link

AMF net use may be over­es­ti­mated by about 10 per­centage points

brb24310 Oct 2022 23:05 UTC
23 points
3 comments2 min readEA link

Up­date on Effec­tive Altru­ism Funds

Kerry_Vaughan20 Apr 2017 17:20 UTC
21 points
92 comments12 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 3

JPHoughton10 Jan 2022 22:48 UTC
61 points
6 comments5 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 1

JPHoughton17 Oct 2021 11:56 UTC
71 points
17 comments3 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 2

JPHoughton21 Nov 2021 13:52 UTC
31 points
10 comments2 min readEA link

AMF – Reflect­ing on 2023 and look­ing ahead to 2024

RobM24 Nov 2023 5:37 UTC
135 points
5 comments6 min readEA link

Malaria bed­net and medicine overlap

MichaelStJules5 Sep 2023 23:55 UTC
24 points
4 comments9 min readEA link

If Con­trac­tu­al­ism, Then AMF

Bob Fischer13 Oct 2023 18:03 UTC
62 points
54 comments24 min readEA link

Ad­ding Quan­tified Uncer­tainty to GiveWell’s Cost Effec­tive­ness Anal­y­sis of the Against Malaria Foundation

Tanae31 Aug 2022 12:53 UTC
31 points
10 comments3 min readEA link
(observablehq.com)

Which helped more? (Donat­ing to AMF in 2010 or 2020)

ethankennerly26 Apr 2021 4:39 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

AMA: Founder and CEO of the Against Malaria Foun­da­tion, Rob Mather

tobytrem11 Dec 2023 18:16 UTC
73 points
24 comments2 min readEA link

Con­cerns about AMF from GiveWell read­ing—Part 4

JPHoughton13 Feb 2022 13:36 UTC
21 points
18 comments4 min readEA link

Ex­is­ten­tial Hope Hoodie and T-Shirt

Tomer_Goloboy13 Jun 2022 20:07 UTC
6 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

Sup­port AMF in tab 4 a cause so it reaches its goal.

zoltariolb26 Jul 2019 18:09 UTC
−5 points
3 comments1 min readEA link

Bloomberg: Unac­knowl­edged prob­lems with LLINs are caus­ing a rise in malaria.

Ian Turner24 Feb 2024 21:13 UTC
77 points
6 comments1 min readEA link
(www.bloomberg.com)

Op­por­tu­nity to in­crease your giv­ing im­pact through AMF

MichaelDello24 Feb 2016 9:48 UTC
9 points
5 comments2 min readEA link

Helping AMF cre­ate a sys­tem for donat­ing stocks/​securities

Akash6 Feb 2021 21:15 UTC
10 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Rob Mather: Against Malaria Foun­da­tion — the im­pact of accountability

EA Global21 Nov 2020 8:12 UTC
7 points
0 comments1 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

Rob Mather: Against Malaria Foun­da­tion — what we do, how we do it, and the challenges

EA Global12 Feb 2019 15:59 UTC
8 points
4 comments30 min readEA link
(www.youtube.com)

[Pod­cast + Tran­script] AMA: Founder and CEO of AMF, Rob Mather

tobytrem8 Jan 2024 16:39 UTC
49 points
2 comments30 min readEA link
(forum-podcasts.effectivealtruism.org)

Assess­ment of Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute’s Cost-Effec­tive­ness Anal­y­sis of StrongMinds

GiveWell22 Mar 2023 17:04 UTC
239 points
57 comments23 min readEA link
(www.givewell.org)

HLI’s Giv­ing Sea­son 2023 Re­search Overview

Happier Lives Institute28 Nov 2023 14:03 UTC
53 points
3 comments19 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Dona­tion Mul­ti­plier Stack­ing: Direct­ing 1.65x to 6.6x More Funds

Tyler Kolota18 May 2022 6:13 UTC
12 points
1 comment4 min readEA link

Op­por­tu­nity to talk to Against Malaria Foun­da­tion founder Rob Mather

SamDeere22 Jun 2015 17:52 UTC
5 points
2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Is donat­ing to AMF and malaria in­ter­ven­tions the most cost-effec­tive way to save lives from COVID-19?

warrenjordan27 Mar 2020 7:06 UTC
14 points
1 comment2 min readEA link

[Question] What are some cost-effec­tive co-in­ter­ven­tions (and al­ter­na­tives) to bed­net dis­bur­sal?

brb2437 Jan 2022 22:53 UTC
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0 comments2 min readEA link

Dou­ble your dona­tion with match­ing opportunities

Barry Grimes28 Nov 2022 13:48 UTC
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