Kill Malarial Mosquitoes NOW!
We, the
undersigned,
are justifiably concerned, anguished and
outraged that:
·
Over 500 million human beings suffer from malaria in Africa and around
the world annually. This is more people than live in the United States, Canada
and Mexico combined.
·
Well over a million of
these people – mostly children and pregnant women – are killed by malaria each
and every year.
·
Malaria wreaks an
enormous economic toll, incapacitating otherwise productive people, leaving
thousands with brain damage, and keeping millions at home to care for the sick,
instead of producing goods and services to lift Africa and other regions out of
unacceptable, abject poverty.
·
The United States,
Europe and other advanced economies have failed to use every available means to
stop the devastation that malarial mosquitoes inflict upon the world’s poorest
citizens. They are the same methods we used to eradicate malaria in our
countries. Yet, we have mindlessly withheld them from other people for over 30
years – to tragic, almost genocidal effect.
·
Almost none of
the $200 million that US taxpayers contribute to world malaria control each
year is actually spent to kill or repel the deadly mosquitoes that inject
parasites into the bloodstreams of their victims. These shortsighted policies
fail to recognize that spraying small amounts of DDT on the interior walls of
homes can effectively kill or repel malarial mosquitoes – giving long-lasting
protection to the families within.
·
Amazingly, some in
government even oppose using malaria control monies to kill the parasite that malarial
mosquitoes transmit from person to person! These individuals would block or
limit funding for the purchase of medicines, such as artemisinin-based
combination therapies (ACTs), which cure malaria and inhibit its spread
wherever they are used.
·
DDT as yet plays no part
in the program announced by President Bush in July 2005, to spend an additional
$1.2 billion on malaria control over the next five years. Without DDT and ACTs,
this spending will be needlessly wasted, along with millions of additional
lives.
We
understand the facts about DDT and its historic opponents, as summarized in the
Background and References, below. We now seek humane, heroic action by US
leaders to alter the ugly course of human history with regard to malaria.
Our objective: To end malaria’s
worldwide reign of terror
We want to slash disease and death tolls in Africa and
worldwide, by changing the way the US government funds malaria control. We want
cost-effective measures that actually kill and repel malarial mosquitoes,
eliminate parasites, cure malaria patients – and save lives.
We therefore ask Congress and the President to:
·
Ensure that at least 2/3 (two-thirds) of annual Congressional appropriations
for malaria control are earmarked for insecticidal and medicinal commodities –
with up to half of such monies targeted to the treatment and cure of infected
patients.
·
Specifically direct such
funds to the actual purchase and deployment of: (1) DDT, or any other proven,
more cost-effective insecticide/repellant, for Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS)
in any given malarial locality; and (2) of ACTs, or other equally effective and
durable drugs, for treatment of malaria patients and reduction in disease
transmission rates.
·
Require that this 2/3 formula be mirrored in the annual malaria control
spending by any agency receiving US malaria control monies – such as US Agency
for International Development, World Health Organization, World Bank, UNICEF,
Roll Back Malaria, and Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
·
Direct that this 2/3 proportion will be subject to
reduction ONLY if replaced by corresponding expenditures for any malaria
control measure (such as larvaciding) that has been proven equally or more
cost-effective in reducing malaria morbidity and mortality rates in specific
localities – as certified, in advance of such expenditure and replacement, by
the directors of the US Centers for Disease Control, Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences or similar independent agency, based on
controlled epidemiological studies in the field.
In full
accord with the UN Stockholm Convention
on Persistent Organic Pollutants, this objective contemplates DDT use only for indoor residual spraying (which
results in zero-to-negligible external environmental residue) – and not for aerial or any other form of
outdoor application.[1] It does not contemplate the use of insecticides,
including insecticide-treated mosquito nets, not shown to be more cost-effective than indoor residual
spraying with DDT for all members of affected populations.
In the absence of empirical evidence to the contrary,
we the undersigned regard as inadequate – and therefore morally unacceptable –
any policy that permits any sum in excess of one-third of US anti-malaria
funding to be expended on contractors, consultants, “technical assistance,”
conferences, “capacity building,” overhead, bed nets or similar measures,
rather than the proven insecticidal and medical interventions described above.
Bureaucrats, contractors, academics, insecticide
companies, anti-pesticide activists and other self-interested parties have
frequently protested that DDT for indoor residual spraying is no panacea – and
falsely claimed that alternative methods work equally well in controlling
malaria. However, the fact is, nothing
in the history of man has proven more effective than the combination of
insecticides such as DDT and effective medicines like ACTs, for saving human
lives from the scourge of malaria.
DDT enabled the United States, Europe and most
advanced economies to eradicate malaria. It must now be permitted and
encouraged to start saving lives in Africa, Asia, Latin America and other parts
of the world where malarial mosquitoes continue to kill thousands of innocent
children and parents every day. Because:
·
Allocation decisions on
US appropriations for malaria control must be made by Congress and the White
House;
·
The US foreign aid and
multilateral aid bureaucracies have proven themselves incompetent and unwilling
over many years to make effective commodity purchases and allocation decisions;
·
Most of the world,
including the World Health Organization, has endorsed DDT for indoor
residual spraying through the UN Stockholm Convention; and
·
Americans and most of
the world embrace health, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as
fundamental Human Rights – and yet the effect of current malaria policies is to
deny those Human Rights to billions
of the world’s poorest people;
Now,
therefore, we the undersigned
Coalition of the Informed and Concerned hold that the burden of scientific and
moral proof rests with any who would argue that more than one-third of US and
world malaria control spending should support measures other than DDT and ACTs (or any other proven, more cost-effective
interventions) for combating this horrific disease.
If and when the opponents of DDT and ACTs can show and
obtain certification as provided above that something else works better to save
human lives from malaria, we the undersigned will readily – even eagerly –
accede to something less than this two-thirds
formula.
Until then, however, we will fight furiously for every
human life now hanging in the balance, as a function of current, myopic, errant
and unconscionable US and global malaria control policies.
We urge
all people of conscience, moral conviction and human decency to join us in
ending malaria’s reign of terror in Africa and the developing world. We hereby
implore Congress and the President to stop the misguided malaria spending, stop
the talking, and finally take real action to:
Kill Malarial Mosquitoes NOW!
Signatories:
Note: Organizational affiliations are
for identification purposes only and do not necessarily imply any formal
organizational endorsements of the Declaration.
Name Title,
affiliation(s) and state or country of residence:
Desmond M Tutu Nobel
Peace Laureate (1984), Archbishop Emeritus, South Africa
F.
W. de Klerk Nobel
Peace Laureate (1993), Former President of South Africa
Norman
E. Borlaug, PhD Nobel Peace
Laureate (1970), Professor of International Agriculture, Texas
Edwin Meese III Former
Attorney General of the United States
Norris
McDonald African
American Environmentalist Association
Andrew
Spielman, PhD Professor
of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Admiral
Harold M. Koenig, MD Former Surgeon
General of the US Navy (retired), Maryland
Patrick Moore, PhD Co-founder
of Greenpeace and forest ecologist, British Columbia, Canada
Kenneth D. Christman, MD President, Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons, Ohio
Elizabeth Whelan, ScD President, American Council
on Science & Health, New York
Robert S. Desowitz, PhD Professor Emeritus, Tropical
Medicine, U of Hawaii and N Carolina
Abere Mihrete, PhD Director, Anti-Malaria
Association, Ethiopia
M. Fazlur Rahman
Former Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare,
Bangladesh
Harry
C. Alford President
& CEO, Natl Black Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC
Roy Innis National
Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality, New York
Rabbi Daniel Lapin President, Toward
Tradition, Washington
E. Calvin Beisner, PhD Associate Professor, Knox Theological Seminary,
Florida
Reverend Robert Sirico President, Acton Institute for
the Study of Religion & Liberty, Michigan
Rev. Ren Broekhuizen Retired
Pastor and former African Missionary, Michigan and Wyoming
Samuel C Wolgemuth Vice
Chair, World Relief Corporation, Illinois
David M. Stanley Chairman,
National Taxpayers Union, Washington, DC
T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr. Former Domestic Policy
Advisor to President Ronald Reagan
David M. Beasley Former Governor of
South Carolina
John L. Boone Chairman
& Founder, Presbyterian Action for Faith and Freedom
Director, Institute
for Religion & Democracy
Signatories:
Physicians,
infectious disease experts and scientists 1
Note: Organizational affiliations are
for identification purposes only and do not necessarily imply any formal
organizational endorsements.
Name Title,
affiliation(s) and state or country of residence:
Amir
Attaran, D Phil, LLB Canada
Research Chair, Institute of Population Health; Faculty of Law
University
of Ottawa, Canada
Roger
Bate, PhD Fellow,
American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
Norman
E. Borlaug, PhD Distinguished
Professor of International Agriculture, Texas A&M Univ
1970
Nobel Peace Laureate and Father of the “Green Revolution, Texas
US
National Medal of Science laureate, 2005
Theeraphap Chareonviriyaphap Professor of Entomology (PhD), Kasetsart University, Thailand
Kenneth D. Christman, MD President, Association of American
Physicians and Surgeons, Ohio
Robert S. Desowitz, PhD Professor Emeritus, Tropical
Medicine and Medical Microbiology,
University of Hawaii, and ScD (London), North
Carolina
Ildefonso Fernández-Salas Director, Laboratory of Medical
Entomology and Graduate Program in
Medical
Entomology, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Mary R. Galinski, PhD Associate Professor, Medicine & Infectious
Diseases, Emory University
School
of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Founder & President, Malaria
Foundation International
Nancy
Kerkvliet, PhD Professor of Toxicology, Oregon State University,
Oregon
Admiral
Harold M. Koenig, MD Former Surgeon
General of the US Navy (retired), Maryland
Patrick Moore, PhD Co-founder
of Greenpeace, forest ecologist
Chairman and Chief Scientist, Greenspirit
Strategies, Canada
Andrew
Spielman, PhD Professor of
Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Donald E. Waite, DO, MPH Professor Emeritus, Michigan State
University, Michigan
Author of Environmental Health Hazards: Recognition
and Avoidance
Elizabeth Whelan, ScD President, American Council on
Science & Health, New York
Robert J. Cihak, MD Past President,
Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
Columnist for NewsMax.com and JewishWorldReview.com,
Washington
Sylvie Manguin, PhD Research
Professor in Medical Entomology, Institut de
Recherche pour
le
Développement (IRD), France
Jane
M. Orient, MD President,
Doctors For Disaster Preparedness, Arizona
Donald R. Roberts, PhD Professor of Health, Specialty in
tropical public health, Maryland
Yasmin Rubio-Palis, PhD Chief Biologist, Ministry of Health, Venezuela
Leslie M. Burger, MD, FACP Major General, U.S. Army
(Ret), US Veterans Health Administration
Maj.
Gen. Vernon Chong, MD U.S. Air Force
(retired), California
Capt.
Thomas J. Contreras, PhD Medical Service
Corps, United States Navy (retired)
Former Commanding
Officer, Naval Medical Research Institute
Admiral
W J McDaniel, MD United States
Navy (retired), Washington
Admiral
Melvin Museles, MD US Navy (ret),
former Assoc Dean, Military Medical School, Florida
Richard Andre, PhD Professor, Medical Zoology and Emerging Infectious
Diseases, Maryland
Mushtuq_Husain,
MBBS, PhD Senior Scientific Officer,
Department of Medical Social Science,
Institute
of Epidemiology, Disease Control & Research, Bangladesh
Signatories:
Physicians,
infectious disease experts and scientists 2
Note: Organizational affiliations are
for identification purposes only and do not necessarily imply any formal
organizational endorsements.
Name Title,
affiliation(s) and state or country of residence:
Monthathip
Kongmee, MS Entomologist,
Department of Entomology, Kasetsart Univ, Thailand
Jean Mouchet Professor of Public
Health, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
(IRD), France
James
L. Pendleton, MD Past
President, Assn of American Physicians & Surgeons, Pennsylvania
M. Fazlur Rahman
Managing Director, Ahsania Mission Cancer/General Hospital Project
Former
Secretary, Ministry of Health & Family
Welfare
Former
Secretary, Ministry of Science & Technology (now
ICT),
Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh
Gilbert Ross, MD Executive and Medical
Dir, Amer Council on Science & Health, NY
Jerome
C. Arnett, MD Private
practice, internal and pulmonary medicine, West Virginia
Sir Colin Berry Professor of anatomy
and histopathology, University of London
Former
Dean of the London Hospital Medical College
Paul
K. Branch, MD Private
Practice, Madison, Wisconsin
John
W. Brimmell, PhD, MPH Centers for
Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia
Richard
E. Brown, MD Pediatrician,
Mesa, Arizona
Melanie
Confusione, RN After-Hours
Pediatrics Urgent Care, Florida
Participant
in periodic healthcare missions to Africa
Robert
F. Conkling, MD Private
Family Practice, Virginia
Ruth R Currin, RN Grosse
Ile, MI
Cheryl Durstein-Decker MD Director, Shattering Darkness, Inc, Florida and Burkina Faso
Charles
G Erickson MD Pediatric
Consultant, Lincoln, Nebraska
Abraham
S. Feigenbaum, PhD Nutritional
biochemist (retired), Highland Park, NJ
Sarah P. Fellows, MPH Preventive
Medicine and Community Health, Missouri
Major Shormin Ara Ferdousi, MD Child Specialist, Combined Military Hospital, Bangladesh
Dr Valeria Frighi Department of
Psychiatry, University of Oxford, England
Scott Geller
MD Private
practice in ophthalmology, Fort Myers, Florida
Bruce Goldman, PhD Science journalist (medicine
and cancer), California
Jeffrey M. Hartog, DMD, MD Plastic Surgeon, Winter Park, Florida
Marjorie Mazel Hecht Managing Editor, 21st Century Science & Technology,
Virginia
Peter
H. Helseth, MD, Minneapolis,
MN
Sandy Hoar, MPAS, PA-C Asst Clinical Professor, George
Washington Univ, Washington, DC
George Isajiw, MD Private Practice, Upper
Darby, Pennsylvania
Rajiv Jain, MD, DO Emergency room physician,
Virginia
Associate
Professor, Marshall U Medical Center, Lavalette, WV
James Johnsen, MD Private
practice, Fairfax, Virginia
Kusuma Johnsen, MD Cardiac
care nurse, Fairfax, VA and Bangkok, Thailand
Jeffrey Kemprecos Director,
Merck Sharp & Dohme, Turkey
Jay Lehr, PhD Science
Director, Heartland Institute, Illinois
Signatories:
Physicians,
infectious disease experts and scientists 3
Note: Organizational affiliations are
for identification purposes only and do not necessarily imply any formal
organizational endorsements.
Name Title,
affiliation(s) and state or country of residence:
Christiane J. Levine, RN Coordinator, Student Leaders
Against Malaria, Emory Univ, Georgia
Former
chair, International Affairs, Atlanta Women’s Club
Russell C. Libby, MD Pediatric
medicine, Fairfax, VA
Joyce Lockard, PhD Virologist
(retired), Oregon
Member, American Association of University Women
Angela Logomasini, MS Director,
Risk and Envir Policy, Competitive Enterprise Inst, Virginia
Brian
MacWhinney Professor
of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Jack
D. McCarthy, MD Private
practice, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Tomas McFie, PhD Owner
and director of wellness centers in Oregon, Virginia and Idaho
Wilbur K. Milhous, PhD Chief
Science Officer for Therapeutics
Walter
Reed Army Institute of Research, Maryland
Henry
I. Miller, MD Fellow,
The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, California
Lorraine
Mooney Medical
Demographer, Africa Fighting Malaria, England
Charles F. Morton, DDS Union City, MI
Daniel Pasquier, MD, PhD Neurologist,
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
Arthur B. Robinson,
PhD President,
Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, Oregon
Mauricio Humberto Rodriguez Chief of Public Health, Amazon Region, Colombia, South America
Professor Gustavo C. Rossi Mosquito Taxonomist, Centro de Estudios
Parasitológicos y de
Vectores,
Argentina
Marvin R. Rush, MD Huntingburg,
Indiana
Sally L. Satel, MD Resident
Scholar, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC
Amma
A. Semenya PhD
candidate, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Georgia
Aye Yu Soe, MBBS, DMA Humphrey Fellow, Rollins School of
Public Health, Emory U, Georgia
Former
researcher in clinical malaria, Burma
Dr. Oscar Daniel Salomón, MD Centro Nacional de Diagnóstico e Investigación de
Endemo-epidemias,
Argentina
Hugo Schmidt Molecular
biologist, Great Britain
Roy
W. Spencer, PhD Principal
Research Scientist, Earth System Science Center,
The
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Philip Stevens Director,
Health Programme, International Policy Network
Anwarul Hasan Sufi, PhD Professor and former chairman, Department of Psychology,
University
of Rajshahi, Bangladesh
D. Rutledge Taylor, DO/MDCRT Private practice, Los Angeles, CA
T. Stephen Thompson President
& CEO, Immtech International, Inc.,
Illinois
Former
GM, Hepatitis & Infectious Disease Unit, Abbott Laboratories
John J. Verdon, Jr, MD Private practice, Psychiatry
and Addiction Medicine, New Jersey
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Univ. of
Dentistry & Medicine of NJ
David L. Wood, MD Clinical
Professor of Plastic Surgery, University of California at Irvine
Signatories:
Religious and human rights leaders 1
Note: Organizational affiliations are
for identification purposes only and do not necessarily imply any formal
organizational endorsements of the Declaration.
Name Title,
affiliation(s) and state or country of residence:
Harry
C. Alford President
& CEO, Natl Black Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC
E. Calvin Beisner, PhD Associate Professor, Knox Theological Seminary,
Florida
Member of Advisory Board, Interfaith Stewardship
Alliance
John L. Boone Director,
Institute on Religion and Democracy, Washington, DC
Chairman and
Founder, Presbyterian Action for Faith and Freedom
Director,
The Presbyterian Lay Committee
Rev. Ren Broekhuizen Retired
Pastor and former African Missionary, Michigan and Wyoming
J. Ligon Duncan III, PhD Senior
Minister, First Presbyterian Church, Mississippi
President, Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals
Roy Innis National
Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality, New York
Rabbi Daniel Lapin President, Toward
Tradition, Washington
Member of Advisory Board, Interfaith Stewardship
Alliance
Garry
J. Moes Advisory
Board member, Interfaith Stewardship Alliance, California
Editor/Publisher, Graybrook Institute; Former editor, Associated
Press
Reverend Robert Sirico President,
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty, Michigan
Member of Advisory Board, Interfaith Stewardship
Alliance
Daniel Wolgemuth President and CEO, Youth
for Christ/USA
Samuel C Wolgemuth Former
President and CEO of Freedom Communications, Inc, Illinois
Vice
Chair, World Relief Corporation (relief and development arm of
The
National Association of Evangelicals)
Mary Jo Anderson Contributing Editor, Crisis Magazine
Reverend Paul W. Baer Host,
Pediatric Ward, University Medical Center, Arizona
Pastor
Emeritus, Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Arizona
Michael Bauman, PhD Professor
of Theology and Culture, Hillsdale College, Michigan
Reverend John Michael Beers Dean, Ave Maria University, Florida
Member of Advisory Board, Interfaith Stewardship
Alliance
Rabbi
Joshua Ben-Gideon Assistant
Rabbi, Congregation Olam Tikvah, Fairfax, VA
Rabbi
Joel Berman Ohev
Tzedek – Sha’arei Torah Congregation, Ohio
Corbin
Boekhaus Student,
Divinity School of Wake Forest University, North Carolina
Ray
Bohlin, PhD President,
Probe Ministries, Texas
Istvan
Borzasi President,
Convention of Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania
Pastor
Ren Broekhuizen Former missionary to Africa (retired), Michigan
Raquel
Burciaga Mission
Amen Lima, Peru
Scott
Bryant Westminster
Theological Seminary
Reverend
Jeffrey E. Carroll Trinity
Community Church, Maryland
Reverend
David F. Chandler Pastor, Trinity
Covenant Church, Connecticut
Mary
Connelly Cathedral
of St. Paul, Minnesota
Father
Stuart Cranshaw Priest in
Charge, Holy Trinity Church, Wyoming
Spiritual
Advisor, Welch Cancer Center
Rev.
Ronald T. Davidson President
and Founder, Gleaning for the World, Virginia
Signatories:
Religious and human rights leaders 2
Note: Organizational affiliations are
for identification purposes only and do not necessarily imply any formal
organizational endorsements of the Declaration.
Name Title,
affiliation(s) and state or country of residence:
Donald A. DeSmith The
Servants of the Word, Michigan
Father Phillip W. DeVous Chaplain, Thomas More College, Kentucky
Maxie D. Dunnam Chancellor, Asbury
Theological Seminar, Tennessee
Trenton D. Eastman Pastor,
Beverly Hills Baptist Church, West Virginia
Scott Erbe InterVarsity
Christian Fellowship, Western Michigan University
Todd R. Flanders, PhD Headmaster,
Providence Academy, Minnesota
Doug Floyd President,
Spring of Light Ministries, Tennessee
Pheiga Gabisinpou Relief
& Development Coordinator, Asian Baptist Federation
Joseph E. Gorra Managing
Editor, Philosophia Christi,
California
Reverend Scott R. Greenway Pastor, Caledonia Christian Reformed Church, Michigan
Reverend Bo Helmich Associate
Pastor, Grace Church of the Roaring Fork Valley, Colorado
Ismael Hernandez Exec
Director, African Caribbean American Catholic Center, Florida
Reverend Irfon Hughes Pastor,
Hillcrest Presbyterian Church, Volant, Pennsylvania
Member
of Advisory Board, Interfaith Stewardship Alliance
Jerry Johnson, MACS, MPhil Director, The Apologetics Group,
Virginia
Lynn Kennedy Founder
and missionary, Shattering Darkness, Inc, Burkina Faso
John R. Khushal Associate
Director, India Campus Crusade for Christ, India
Reverend Malcolm M. King III Pastor, First Presbyterian Church,
Tennessee
Reverend David S. Klompien Pastor, Dutton United Reformed Church,
Michigan
Henry
Krabbendam Chairman
Africa Christian Training Institute, Georgia
Scott B. Luley, PhD Director, Christian Leadership
Ministries, Eastern Region, New Jersey
Sister Mary Louise Matt Sisters of St. Joseph of
Carondelet, Minnesota
Retired teacher
and diocesan director of religious education
Kris Mauren Exec
Dir, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty, Michigan
Father
C. Eugene Morris Director,
Office of the Permanent Diaconate, St. Louis, Missouri
Asst
Professor of Sacramental Theology, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary
Juan
Jose Ramirez Ochoa Assistant
Professor, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, Guatemala
Harold Orndorff Campus
Minister, Christian Student Fellowship, Northern Kentucky U
Father Hector R G Perez, STD St. Stephen Congregation, Florida
Rabbi
Gary Perras Temple
Israel, Daytona Beach, Florida
Scott Rae Professor,
Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, California
Rolf and Sherri Ronstadt Directors, International Ambassadors for Christ,
Illinois
Austin Ruse President,
Catholic Family and Human Rights Initiative
Nelda Smothers Int’l
Service Corp missionary, Southern Baptist Convention, Illinois
Jude Chua Soo Meng, PhD Assistant Professor, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore
William Sweetman, PhD Lecturer
in Theology, University of Otago, New Zealand
Kenneth
Gary Talbot, PhD President and Professor, Whitefield
Theological Seminary, Florida
Matthew
A. Tapie Assistant
Minister, Farmers Branch Church of Christ, Texas
David
Thurman Chaplain
Signatories:
Religious and human rights leaders 3
Note: Organizational affiliations are
for identification purposes only and do not necessarily imply any formal
organizational endorsements of the Declaration.
Name Title,
affiliation(s) and state or country of residence:
Bekeh
Utietiang Student
in Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic U of America
Peter
H. VandeBrake, MDiv, PhD Headmaster,
North Hills Classical Academy
Michael
Voet Chair,
Wisconsin Social Concerns Ministry
Reverend
Curtis Walters Pastor,
Covenant Christian Reformed Church, Michigan
Rabbi Daniel M. Zucker Chairman,
Americans for Democracy in the Middle-East, New York.
Professor
of Hebrew Language, Long Island University
Linda Bly Healthcare
and women’s rights advocate, Vermont
Cyril Boynes, Jr. Director,
Global Role Models Fund, New York
International
Affairs Director, Congress of Racial Equality
W. Ronald Evans President,
National Business League, Washington, DC
Niger
Innis National
Spokesman, Congress of Racial Equality, New York
Dr. Rosemary M. Jensen President
and General Director, Rafiki Foundation, Inc.,
Texas
Joseph Lovece, Jr. President and CEO,
Northstar-Foley Contracting Group, New York
Board Member,
Congress of Racial Equality
Norris McDonald President, African American Environmentalist
Association, Maryland
Carl L. McGill CEO and Chairman, Black Chamber of
Commerce of Los Angeles, CA
Assistant
Western Regional Director, Congress of Racial Equality
John
Meredith Member,
Project 21, Virginia
Empowerment,
Washington, DC and Kenya
Sam Togba Slewion Social worker, journalist,
anti-malaria activist, Liberia & Pennsylvania
Lee H. Walker President, New
Coalition for Social and Economic Change, Illinois
Signatories:
African
clergy, disease experts, scholars, and political and business leaders 1
Note: Organizational affiliations are for
identification purposes only and do not necessarily imply any formal
organizational endorsements.
Name Title,
affiliation(s) and state or country of residence:
Desmond M Tutu Archbishop
Emeritus, Cape Town Diocese, South Africa
1984
Nobel Peace Laureate
F.
W. de Klerk Former
President of South Africa
1993
Nobel Peace Laureate
Reverend
Chanshi Chanda Acton
International Affiliate, Zambia
Bishop Bernard Njoroge Episcopal Bishop of Nairobe, Kenya
Member of the
Kenyan Constitutional Commission
Hajiya Ashe Galadima Bama Local Government, Nigeria
Christina Dlamini
Irvin Member, Royal Family of Swaziland
Hon. General Elly Tumwine Senior Presidential Adviser and Member
of Parliament., Uganda
Chairman,
The Creations Ltd.
John
Dada, PhD, RN, MPH Programs
Director, Fantsuam Foundation, Nigeria
Dzabu
Dlamini, MBA Financial
analyst, Swaziland
Dr Fatai A. Fehintola, PhD Senior
Lecturer and Consultant Physician/Clinical Pharmacologist
Dept
of Clinical Pharmacology, University College Hospital, Nigeria
Joseph Harvey, MD,
MPH&TM Diplomate ABFP Medical
Director, Pioneer Christian Hospital,
Impfondo, Republic
of Congo (Brazzaville)
Rebecca S. Harvey, RN Missionary Nurse, Republic of
Congo (Brazzaville)
Robert T.
Jensen, MD Founder, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania
John P. Kabayo, PhD Coordinator, Pan African
Tsetse and Trypanosomiasis Eradication
Campaign, African
Union, Ethiopia
Former Member of
Parliament of Uganda
Dr. Ronel Kellerman MBChB (Pretoria), DTM&H (Liverpool), MSc
(LSTMH)
Specialist,
School of Public Health, Wits University, South Africa
Professor
Wen L. Kilama Managing
Trustee, African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET),
Tanzania
Commission for Science and Technology, Tanzania
Cindy Korir, PhD Malaria Research Program, Vaccine Center,
Emory Univ, Georgia
Native
of Kenya
Makundi Emmanuel, MPhil Medical Sociologist, Health Systems
and Policy Research Department
National Institute
for Medical Research, Tanzania
Abere Mihrete, PhD Director, Anti-Malaria
Association, Ethiopia
Pauline
NM Mwinzi, PhD Senior
Research Officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kenya
John Spurrier, MD Medical Advisor to the
Executive Director, Macha Mission Hospital,
Zambia
Antoine Leonard van Gelder,
MD Professor and Head of Internal
Medicine Department, University of
Pretoria, South
Africa
Mamane N. Garba, PharmD Research
scientist, Niger, and Graduate Student, Emory Univ, Georgia
Paul
Ndebele Bioethicist,
Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Syrulwa
Somah, PhD Professor of
Environmental Health, North Carolina A&T State Univ.
Executive Director, Liberian History, Education Development, Inc.
Signatories: