The organization generally "promotes market based solutions and economic freedom as the best ways to ensure improved welfare and longer life expectancy in poor countries", according to their financial statement.
[1] Founded in 2000 during the Stockholm Negotiations on Persistent Organic Pollutants, AFM's original focus was the promotion of a public health exemption for the insecticide DDT for malaria control.
"[citation needed] According to IRS filings, the organization spent money entirely on executive compensation, with no program expenses of any kind.
[2][3] In documents obtained during state litigation against tobacco companies, founder Roger Bate described the organization's purpose as part of a larger strategy to portray first-world environmentalists as unconcerned with Black Africans.
AFM ran a "Save Children From Malaria" campaign designed to prevent the Stockholm Convention from banning the use of DDT.