AMF has had a busy 12 months distributing 25.4 million nets to protect 46 million people.
In 2026 we will be distributing 69 million nets to protect 124 million people.
Our immediate funding gap currently stands at US$462 million and is for distributions in 2027 to 2029. More information here.
There are significant opportunities in front of our team of 15 and our partners to change health outcomes in a fundamental way for tens of millions of people.
One of the reasons for the size of the immediate funding gap is the shortfall in funding to major partners including The Global Fund, meaning gaps are significantly higher than all had hoped or expected.
We feel fortunate as an organisation to receive occasional individual donations of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars or more. The occasional US$1 million donation allows us to protect close to a million people. However, our lifeblood is the many tens of thousands of donations we receive that are of US$2, £5, €10, NZD20, CHF30, AUD50 etc that underpin our work. No donation is too small as every US$2 matters and buys a net that protects two people when they sleep at night. All donations, given our immediate gap, are put to work straight away with each donor seeing exactly where the nets they fund are distributed with an ability to track their progress from manufacture, through shipping and in-country transport, to eventual distribution.
We hope the remainder of 2025 and all of 2026 will be a busy time for donations as we try and close as many funding gaps as we can to protect as many people as we can.
Thank you for reading this, and for your interest in what we do - Rob, CEO, AMF
More information: againstmalaria.com
I am sure this has been answered somewhere and it really is a question of more historical relevance but if there's one thing that people with any knowledge of "original" effective altruism knows, it is that anti-malarial bed nets are either the most or nearly the most effective global health intervention. (I believe anti-malarial vaccination may have inched past bed nets by some calculations). AMF has been at or near the top of the charts as a recommended organization tackling this for several years. There are many very wealthy people who claim to have an interest in effective altruism, so how was this not a near-fully funded issue back before 2024 when US and other major donors dropped out? Was it in part just a difficulty in scaling up capacity to meet new funding? What proportion of the total amount of funding available through the AMF or through the international bed net effort can be said to have come via the effective altruism movement?