"Saving Lives and Buying Time": Lessons in good subsidy design from the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm)

This policy brief examines the establishment of the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm), a subsidy scheme designed to provide effective malaria treatments and delay parasite resistance, to offer general recommendations on good subsidy design for policy-makers.

• Malaria represents a major global health crisis; in 2008, approximately 243 million people became ill and nearly 900,000 died, with children under five accounting for 85 per cent of those deaths.
• The effectiveness of malaria treatments has decreased over time because malaria parasites have developed increasing resistance to older treatments.
• The Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm) was created following a 2004 Institute of Medicine report to subsidize treatments that save lives and 'buy time' by staving off resistance to active ingredients.
• The brief identifies several core elements of effective subsidy design based on the AMFm process: research and analysis, consultations with stakeholders, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, and interventions to reduce unintended consequences and risks.

APA

Lang,, W. D. (2010). "Saving Lives and Buying Time": Lessons in good subsidy design from the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm). International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/saving-lives-and-buying-time-lessons-good-subsidy-design-affordable-medicines

Chicago

Lang,, Wouter Deelder,Kerryn. "Saving Lives and Buying Time": Lessons in good subsidy design from the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm). International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2010. https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/saving-lives-and-buying-time-lessons-good-subsidy-design-affordable-medicines.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{lang2010saving, author = {Lang,, Wouter Deelder,Kerryn}, title = {{"Saving Lives and Buying Time": Lessons in good subsidy design from the Affordable Medicines Facility - malaria (AMFm)}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2010}, month = mar, url = {https://www.iisd.org/publications/report/saving-lives-and-buying-time-lessons-good-subsidy-design-affordable-medicines}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }