Is the Against Malaria Foundation good?

Is the Against Malaria Foundation good?

AMF is rated as a highly cost-effective charity by GiveWell. AMF was chosen as one of GiveWell’s two highest-recommended charities (along with the Schistosomiasis Control Initiative) in 2011 and has continued to be recommended by GiveWell since then.

What organization runs Against Malaria Foundation?

AMF
The Against Malaria Foundation (AMF) is one of our top-rated charities and we believe that it offers donors an outstanding opportunity to accomplish good with their donations….Spending breakdown.

Category	July 2011 to June 2020 spending	Percentage of total spending, FY 2012 to 2020
LLIN purchases	$173 million	92.9%

What does the Against Malaria Foundation do?

Against Malaria Foundation works to prevent the spread of malaria by distributing long-lasting, insecticide-treated mosquito nets to susceptible populations in developing countries. AMF has been active in 36 countries in Africa, Asia and South America, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa.

How much does it cost to save a life Against Malaria Foundation?

GiveWell estimates that the cost-per-child-life saved by the Against Malaria Foundation is just $3,340.

How much has Bill Gates spent fighting malaria?

SEATTLE — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced three grants totaling $258.3 million for advanced development of a malaria vaccine, new drugs, and innovative mosquito control methods to help defeat malaria, a disease that kills 2,000 African children every day.

Is GiveWell reputable?

GiveWell is an American non-profit charity assessment and effective altruism-focused organization.

How can we help against malaria?

Preventing bites

1. Stay somewhere that has effective air conditioning and screening on doors and windows.
2. If you’re not sleeping in an air-conditioned room, sleep under an intact mosquito net that’s been treated with insecticide.
3. Use insect repellent on your skin and in sleeping environments.

What is wrong with effective altruism?

Not good enough. Effective altruism is set up to focus on giving in a way that, unfortunately, undermines its own effectiveness. In order to be more appealing to more people, it adopts an individualistic consumerist framing. But doing so forecloses political options and traps us in an inferior equilibrium.

What are the challenges of effective altruism?

What are the biggest flaws of the effective altruism community?

• Groupthink.
• Disagreeableness.
• Too much focus on ‘the community’
• A ‘holier than thou’ attitude.
• Failing to give more people a vision of how they can contribute.
• Longtermism has become a status symbol.
• Not engaging enough with the outside world.