<incom> FW: [bytesforall_readers] Interactive website aims to attract malaria funding

Mon May 5 03:07:05 CEST 2008

These are interesting but I'm wondering how successful they are in practice.

MG

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Interactive website aims to attract malaria funding

Naomi Antony

21 April 2008 | EN
African malaria boy

Money raised will go towards malaria interventions

WHO/PIERRE VIROT

A new website is seeking to enlist members of the public in the fight
against malaria by encouraging them to donate directly to research
projects in developing countries.

MalariaEngage.org, launched to coincide with World Malaria Day (25
April), hopes to tap into the success of social networking sites such
as YouTube by building a global community of people who each
contribute as little as US$10 to a choice of research projects.

"It is my dream that tens of thousands of people will use
MalariaEngage to build a movement that will see through the challenges
of eradicating malaria to the very end," Tom Hadfield, co-founder of
the site and a British entrepreneur studying at Harvard University in
the United States, told SciDev.Net.

Hadfield came up with the concept following a trip to Sub-Saharan
Africa last summer, where he witnessed first hand the devastation
caused by malaria - which kills 3,000 children every day in the region
- and met some of the researchers working to find solutions.

He found that researchers in developing countries have difficulty
getting attention and obtaining funding.

"The whole point of MalariaEngage is to put people in direct contact
with African researchers," Peter Singer, another co-founder of
MalariaEngage and professor at Canada's McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for
Global Health, told SciDev.Net.

Social networking tools form part of the site, including a discussion
forum for funding contributors to contact researchers for progress
reports.

"There is nothing like that available anywhere else at the moment," says
Singer.

Abdullah Daar, also a co-founder of the site and professor at the
McLaughlin-Rotman Centre, says this new approach to supporting malaria
eradication could attract an audience who hadn't contributed to such
causes before.

The initial pilot projects requesting support are from the National
Institute for Medical Research in Tanzania.

"Our ultimate vision is [to reach] a point where no good idea from an
African researcher has to go into the dustbin because it is
underfunded," says Singer.

"We are a long way from that goal but . we are ready to go to scale
with more institutions and more projects, based on the demand that we
receive from the global Internet public."

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