AFM and Hedge Funds vs. Malaria want to thank the following organizations for joining us in becoming the first 40 founding partners the March of Washingtons - the first and only grassroots effort focused on purchasing and testing malaria medication. We are nearly halfway to our goal of launching the project officially with 100 founding partners on August 4th! Please reply to this email or write to africa@fightingmalaria.org and sign your organization on - every African child should have access to safe and effective malaria drugs.
Academy for Educational Development - http://www.aed.org/
African Communities Against Malaria - http://www.acamalaria.org/
Agric Link Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited
American Mosquito Control Association - http://www.mosquito.org/
Americans for Democracy in the Middle-East - http://www.adme.ws/
Anti Malaria Association - http://www.amaethiopia.org/
Concern Health Education Project Ghana
CORE Uganda - http://core-africa.org/
Development Finance International - http://www.dfintl.com/
Dunk Malaria - http://www.dunkmalaria.org/
Empowering the Poor, Inc. - http://www.empoweringthepoor.org/
FAMEDEV-Inter Africa Network for Women, Media ,Gender and Development
Free Africa Foundation - http://www.freeafrica.org/
Global Health Advocates - http://www.ghadvocates.org/
Government Relations, Inc.
Health and Gender Initiatives
HealthGuard Uganda
IMANI Ghana - www.imanighana.com
Initiative for Public Policy Analysis -www.ippanigeria.org
Instituto Bruno Leoni - http://www.brunoleoni.it/
International Network for Rational Use of Drugs Kenya -
http://www.inrud.org/
Malaria Foundation International http://www.malaria.org
Manchester Trade Ltd. - http://www.manchestertrade.com/
mPedigree - http://www.mpedigree.org/
Nigerian School Project - http://www.nigerianschoolproject.org/
One Million Faces Against Malaria - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2333178829
Princess of Africa Foundation - http://www.princessofafrica.co.za/
SHARED, Inc. - http://www.healthshares.org/
Small Holder Farmers Society for Vector Ecology - http://www.sove.org/Home.html
Soft Power Health - http://www.softpowerhealth.com/
Stratek Business Strategy Consultants - www.stratek.co.za
Student Leaders Fighting Against Malaria Kenya
Sustainable Healthcare Foundation - http://www.cfwshops.org/
Swiss Tropical Institute - http://www.sti.ch/
Taylor Hibbard Club - http://www.aae.wisc.edu/thc/
The Healthstore Foundation - http://www.cfwshops.org/
Tukum Amorubulle Health Care Initiative
The World Health Organization estimates that of the one million deaths that occur from malaria each year, up to 200,000 would be avoidable if the drugs were effective, of good quality and used correctly:
http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/2003/fs275/en/ This is why Hedge Funds vs. Malaria and Africa Fighting Malaria recently launched the March of Washingtons - the first and only grassroots effort to buy and test malaria drugs. We want to make those 200,000 deaths disappear and help bring the other 800,000 down to zero by making sure every African child has access to safe and effective drugs.
Here's the idea: George Washington had malaria. George Washington is on the one dollar bill. For one dollar we can buy a good quality and effective malaria treatment for one child AND conduct quality control testing of malaria drugs on the market. Fake and substandard malaria drugs are a big problem in Africa. AFM's recent research found that 35% of antimalarials sold in six major African cities failed basic quality control tests: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/health/13glob.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss This means a mother buying malaria medicine for her child has a 65% chance that it will work - we need to bring that up to 100%.
This is your invitation to become a founding partner in the March of Washingtons. We'll publish an official March of Washingtons press release and launch on Monday, August 4, 2008 listing the first 100 organizations to join. All you need to do is reply to this message or write to africa@fightingmalaria.org and sign your organization on.
Thanks,
Philip Coticelli
Africa Fighting Malaria
http://fightingmalaria.org
P.S. You can read about the results of AFM's work to raise awareness of substandard malaria drugs in Kenya and Rwanda here http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9in0Ta9xUL0-FhsUE3jI7eszTug and here http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index.php?issue=13545&article=6710. Help us keep the momentum going - join the March of Washingtons.
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Philip Coticelli
+1-301-801-5801
http://fightingmalaria.org
mailto:pcoticelli@gmail.com