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  9 Giving USA Foundation, “How a Recession Impacts Giving,” Netlinks, special edition, June 2008, http://www.ruotoloassoc.com/newsletter/SpecialEditionJune08.pdf; Ret Boney, “US Giving Hits Record $306 Billion,” Philanthropy Journal, June 23, 2008, http://www.philanthropyjournal.org/news/us-giving-hits-record-306-billion.

  10 The Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances 2010 (Washington, DC: Hudson Institute, 2010), 13, http://www.hudson.org/files/pdf_upload/Index_of_Global_Philanthropy_and_Remittances_2010.pdf.

  11 AP Enterprise, “Fraud Plagues Global Health Fund,” Associated Press, Jan. 24, 2011, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jBNgIu-Vg-_pAVtF6PcN9eSYPfiA?docId=eccd6da0cec34b489a67dfdf80cb933b; Andrew Jack, “UN Health Fund to Review Practices,” Financial Times (London), Feb. 3, 2011, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bd2d513a-2fcd-11e0–91f8–00144feabdc0.html#axzz1DUQkzgcf; “Foundation Support for the Global Fund,” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Jan. 24. 2011, http://www.gatesfoundation.org/press-releases/pages/support-for-the-global-fund-110124.aspx.

  12 World Health Organization, “Summary,” in World Malaria Report 2010, xi.

  13 Ibid.

  14 Telephone interview with Suprotik Basu, January 2011. All quotations from Basu in this chapter are from this interview.

  15 Telephone interview with Alan Court, December 2011.

  16 Telephone interview with Steven Phillips, November 2010.

  17 Telephone interview with Peter Chernin, December 2009. All quotations from Chernin in this chapter are from this interview.

  18 Telephone interview with Tachi Yamada, December 2010.

  19 Telephone interview with Christian Lengeler, June 2009.

  20 Patrick Worsnip and Kate Kelland, “Global Fund Sees Disease Fight Hampered by Donors,” Reuters, Oct. 5, 2010, http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6945JE20101005.

  21 Ania Lichtarowicz, “Malaria Funding ‘Falling Short,’” BBC News, Oct. 1, 2010, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11453519.

  22 Telephone interview with Richard Feachem, April 2009.

  23 Interview with Marcel Tanner, Ifakara Health Institute, Tanzania, August 2009.

  24 Sonia Shah, “Live with It,” Le Monde Diplomatique, Oct. 2010, 1, http://mondediplo.com/2010/10/13malaria.

  25 “Malaria Elimination,” Lancet, Oct. 29, 2010, http://www.thelancet.com/malaria-elimination.

  26 Telephone interview with Ian Linden, February 2010.

  27 Jeffrey Sachs, “Aid Ironies,” Huffington Post, May 24, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/aid-ironies_b_207181.html.

  28 William Easterly, “Sachs Ironies: Why Critics Are Better for Foreign Aid Than Apologists,” Huffington Post, May 25, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-easterly/sachs-ironies-why-critics_b_207331.html.

  29 Dambisa Moyo, “Aid Ironies: A Response to Jeffrey Sachs,” Huffington Post, May 26, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dambisa-moyo/aid-ironies-a-response-to_b_207772.html.

  30 Jeffrey Sachs and John W. McArthur, “Moyo’s Confused Attack on Aid for Africa,” Huffington Post, May 27, 2009, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/moyos-confused-attack-on_b_208222.html.

  31 World Health Organization, World Malaria Report 2010; World Health Organization, World Malaria Report 2009, http://www.who.int/malaria/world_malaria_report_2009/en/index.html.

  32 When Chambers started on Apr. 25, 2008, he already had 130 million nets in hand: 99 million from the Global Fund and the World Bank, 20 million from the UK, and 10 million from the US. Between then and the halfway mark, August 2009, he pushed the total to 182 million; by year’s end 2010, it was 289 million.

  33 Roll Back Malaria, “Saving Lives with Malaria Control: Counting Down to the Millennium Development Goals,” Progress and Impact Series, no. 3 (September 2010): 25, http://www.rbm.who.int/ProgressImpactSeries/docs/report3-en.pdf.

  34 Telephone interview with Christian Lengeler, January 2011.

  Index

  Abdulmutallab, Umar Farouk

  Abongo, Lameck

  Academic debate

  Accountability

  Aceh Anti-Corruption Movement

  Adongo, James

  Adongo, Judith

  Afforestation

  African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA)

  African Union (AU)

  Agriculture

  ancient spread of malaria

  climate change affecting

  DDT penetration into the food chain

  DDT use

  organic farming

  US and European mechanization of

  Ahluwalia, Montek

  Aid workers encouraging corruption

  al Qaeda

  Alaric

  Alexander the Great

  allAfrica.com

  Allen, Paul

  Altruism

  Aluminum smelting

  Amang, Doris

  Amateur efforts

  Amelior Foundation

  American Idol (television program)

  Americas

  Anglo Gold Ashanti

  Animals, malarial origins in

  Annan, Kofi

  Anopheles funestus mosquito

  Antiaid sentiment

  Areas at risk of transmission

  Artemisinin

  Asia

  global spread

  risk of infection

  Autoimmune diseases

  Auty, Richard M.

  Avis

  A-Z Textile Mills, Tanzania

  Ban Ki-Moon

  Bantu tribes

  Basu, Suprotik

  Beckham, David

  Beckham, Victoria

  Bed net distribution

  Chambers’s fundraising

  DRC

  Ethiopia and Sudan’s success

  ExxonMobil program

  lack of incentive

  meeting the target

  Nigeria’s funding problems

  shifting goalposts

  Uganda’s success

  universal coverage phase

  See also specific countries

  Bed nets

  effectiveness of

  manufacturing

  need for replacements

  statistical support for

  teaching children to use

  ten dollar campaign

  tennis nets and

  Uganda’s lack of

  Bendiocarb (insecticide)

  BHP Billiton

  Biafran conflict

  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  Black population, Gorgas’ racist eradication efforts

  Blair, Tony

  Bloggers

  Blood diamonds

  Bono

  Boston Tea Party

  Botswana

  Brain damage

  Bridgeland, John

  Britain. See United Kingdom

  Brown, Gordon

  Buddhism

  Buffett, Warren

  Bukenya, Gilbert

  Burkina Faso

  Burma

  Bush, George H.W.

  Bush, George W.

  Business, aid as

  AngloGold Ashanti

  bringing the product to the consumer

  closing Kenya’s gap

  dwelling on the positive

  ExxonMobil’s eradication program

  Rwanda genocide

  See also Phillips, Steven

  Business interests

  aid benefits to

  creative capitalism

  foreign investment in Africa overtaking aid

  global summit

  LSDI success

  malaria eradication success

  Business plan

  Cambodia

  Cameron, David

  Cameroon, ExxonMobil bed net distribution program

  Carson, Rachel

  Cartoon pamphlet

  Case, Scott

  Castana Castano, Tim

  Cats

  Celebrities with malaria

  Celebrity campaigners ––

  C
enter for Disease Control and Prevention

  Center of Interfaith Action (CIFA)

  Chambers, Ray

  African Leaders Malaria Alliance

  background and education

  Chan leveraging

  financing universal coverage

  fundraising campaign

  Grand Aid Debate

  increased urgency and goals

  Kenya’s new coverage crisis

  linking malaria to fun activities

  malaria eradication as good business

  Millennium Development Goals

  Millennium Villages

  Nigeria’s faith-based efforts

  Nigeria’s religion-aid conflict

  optimism about coverage

  phases of the plan

  philanthropic beginnings

  Tanzania campaign

  Uganda campaign

  Uganda’s indifference

  UN special envoy

  universal coverage phase

  Zambia crisis

  Chan, Margaret

  Uganda’s pharmaceutical manufacturing

  Chernin, Peter

  Children

  Apac’s treatment and casualty figures

  bed net effectiveness

  Chambers’s Uganda visit

  death from malaria

  lives saved figures

  Millennium Development Goals

  Nigeria’s death rate

  Uganda’s success

  China

  Africa trade growth

  ancient references to malaria

  DRC funding

  embracing philanthropy

  Chloroquine

  Chopra, Deepak

  Christian assistance programs

  Cinchona

  Climate change

  Clinton, Hillary

  Clooney, George

  Clothing as prevention aid

  Coartem (antimalarial drug)

  Coffee

  Cole, Cheryl

  Collier, Paul

  Coll-Seck, Awa Marie

  Colonialism

  Africa’s exclusion from WHO global eradication program

  Ghana’s resource curse

  resource plundering

  seeds of Rwandan genocide

  Conflict

  DRC

  economic crisis triggering

  humanitarian efforts contributing to

  Kenya

  Nigeria

  resource curse and

  South Sudan

  Congo, Democratic Republic of

  aid workers’ lifestyle

  bed net distribution

  challenges of coverage

  conflict

  distribution figures

  resource curse and conflict

  revising the distribution plan

  universal coverage plan

  Congress, US, Global Malaria Eradication Program

  Consumer, aid recipients as

  Control versus eradication

  Coomaraswamy, Radhika

  Copple, Jim

  Corporate practice, Ghana’s gold production

  Corruption

  aid workers’ contribution to

  assessing aid effectiveness

  DRC under Kabila

  India’s aid distribution

  Nigeria

  Zambia crisis

  Costs

  Cotton farming

  Countries or areas at risk of transmission, 2009

  Court, Alan

  Cowell, Simon

  Creative capitalism

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Curtis, Richard

  Dalai Lama

  Darfur

  DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane)

  Death

  global occurrence

  poverty and illness cycle

  Uganda

  Democratic Republic of Congo. See Congo, Democratic Republic of

  Desertification

  Development, economic

  economic crisis

  malaria quashing

  Millennium Development Goals

  Dr. Seuss (Theodore Seuss Geisel)

  Drogba, Didier

  Drugs

  Dutch Disease

  Dybul, Mark

  Earthquake

  Easterly, William

  Economic crisis (2008-2010)

  Economic growth

  Economy

  Africa’s growth

  climate change endangering

  disease-economy connection

  Dutch Disease

  governance, poverty, malaria connection

  green economics

  shock therapy

  Edson, Gary

  Education

  Chambers’s education grants

  Ethiopia’s cash on delivery aid project

  medical

  Millennium Development Goals

  Effectiveness/ineffectiveness of aid

  Egypt, ancient

  Emer, Matthew

  The End of Poverty (Sachs)

  Enlightened self-interest

  Environmental movement

  Environmental stability

  Eradication efforts

  DDT

  ExxonMobil’s plan

  improbability of success

  non-malarial diseases

  postWorld War II,

  success of aid workers

  WHO Global Malaria Eradication Program

  Eradication versus control

  Escaping the Resource Curse (Stiglitz, Humphreys and Sachs)

  Ethiopia

  aid criticism

  aid ineffectiveness

  cash on delivery aid project

  completion of coverage

  good governance and malaria

  success story

  European Alliance Against Malaria (EAAM)

  European explorers and missionaries

  Evolution, human

  Evolution of malaria

  Executive capacity

  Exhaustion

  ExxonMobil

  Family, poverty and illness cycle

  Feachem, Richard

  Female Anopheles

  The Fever (Shah)

  Fitzgerald, Gabrielle

  Food chain, DDT penetration into

  Food prices

  Forbes magazine

  Fore, Henrietta

  Foreign investment

  Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND)

  Fraud, Zambia’s. See also Corruption

  Fuller, Simon

  Fundraising

  Chambers’s UN role

  “Idols Gives Back

  Kenya’s new coverage crisis

  Tanzania

  Western involvement on the rise

  G8 summit

  Gambia

  Gates, Bill. See also Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  Gates, Melinda. See also Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  Geisel, Theodore Seuss (“Dr. Seuss”)

  Geldof, Bob

  Genetic changes

  Genghis Khan

  Genocide

  Geographic dispersion of malaria

  Gerson, Michael

  Ghana

  AngloGold eradication program

  ExxonMobil bed net distribution program

  LSDI success

  resource curse

  Ghebreyesus, Tedros Adhanom

  Gibson Greetings

  GlaxoSmithKline

  Global Business Coalition

  Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria

  DRC net distribution

  fraud allegation

  Ghana program

  Kenya’s new coverage crisis

  Kenya’s rejection by

  Nigeria’s funding problems

  sluggish payment schedule

  Uganda coverage plan

  Uganda’s corruption

  underfunding

  universal coverage plan

  Global Malaria Action Plan

  Global Malaria
Eradication Program

  Global spread

  Global summit

  Gnacadja, Luc

  Gold

  Golgi, Camillo

  Good African Coffee

  Gorgas, William Crawford

  Gourevitch, Philip

  Governance

  African Leaders Malaria Alliance

  closing Kenya’s gap

  corporate partners in eradication programs

  DRC control of malaria eradication

  inadequacy of proposed eradication efforts

  Kenya’s tribal conflict

  malaria, poverty and

  resource curse

  Grassi, Giovanni Battista

  Great Lakes area

  Greece, ancient

  Green economics

  Greenwood, Brian

  Guerrillas

  Gupta, Rajat

  Haiti

  Hayes, Stephen

  Hightower, Sean

  Hippocrates

  HIV/AIDS

  H1N1 (swine flu)

  Hoemeke, Laura

  Huffington Post

  Hughes, Karen

  Humphreys, Macartan

  Hunter-gatherers

  Immunology research

  Index for Global Philanthropy

  India

  corruption in aid distribution

  global spread

  WHO eradication program success

  Industry, aid as

  Inequality

  fueling anger

  Millennium Development Goals

  poverty-malaria connection

  Infants

  antiquated methods and medicines

  Apac’s infected population

  Infectiousness, measuring

  Insecticide

  DDT

  permethrin

  Uganda’s organic farming precluding use of

  Interfaith conference

  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

  International Monetary Fund (IMF)

  Internet use

  Investment, malaria eradication as

  Islam

  Nigeria’s aid conflict Italy

  history of malarial spread

  WHO eradication program success

  Joseph, Michael

  Juma, Elizabeth

  Kabila, Joseph

  Kabila, Laurent

  Kagame, Paul

  Karibushi, Blaise

  Kashmir

  Katangole, Emmanuel

  Kaunda, Kenneth

  Kazatchkine, Michel

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kenya

  closing the gap

  distribution figures

  ExxonMobil bed net distribution program

  new coverage crisis

 

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