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1st Annual AtlantaHedge Funds vs. Malaria
Business Leadership Conference in partnership
with the Malaria Foundation International
INVITATION
INVITATION

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• Tuesday afternoon, December 6, 2005
• Hosted by Emory University, Atlanta, GA
• Venue Emory University Law School
• 1302 Clifton Road Tull Auditorium
• (campus Lowergate Parking Lot nearby)
• Advanced registrations welcome immediately
• Seating will begin at 230 pm
• Conference 300 715 pm

Everyone Welcome
Everyone Welcome
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MILLIONS OF CHILDREN A YEAR DIE FROM IT
Not Famine Not AIDS
Not War
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MALARIAa persistent disaster, in gt90 countries
worldwide
What can be done? Is
anybody doing it?
The Hedge Fund Community is teaming up with the
Malaria Foundation International (MFI) at Emory
University in Atlanta, GA to raise awareness and
support for malaria programs on a scale
unprecedented throughout the United States.
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A Minimal Amount is Being Done
I presumed Malaria to be an even more urgent
issue, a truly life and death concern. I fully
expected to find that whatever could be done to
fight malaria was already being done. Surely, I
thought, the world community would not simply be
standing by while millions of children were dying
each yearbut when my colleague Amir Attaran and
I began to run the numbers on the levels of donor
assistance to fight malaria, we barely found any
numbers.
Malaria is utterly treatable, yet, incredibly,
it still claims up to 3,000,000 lives per year,
mostly young children, about 90 of whom live in
Africa

• MALARIA WAS NOT ON THE POLICY RADAR SCREEN.

Quotes from Jeffrey D. Sachs (Director of the
Earth Institute at Columbia University) in his
book The End of Poverty
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Malaria is TreatableWe Want to Help Members
of The Hedge Fund Community
The toll of malaria is even more tragic because
the disease itself is highly treatable and
preventable. President George W. Bush (June 30,
2005)
We didn't realize how acute the malaria crisis in
Africa was/is until recently when one of us saw
Jeffrey Sachs being interviewed by Charlie Rose.
We now realize we are not alone. Less than 5 of
the people we talked to about this project have
any clue that a large number of children are
dying from malaria.

• Our goals for fighting malaria are simpleMake
  people aware that malaria is probably the worst
  child killer ever, and it is getting worse.

Malaria can be beaten!
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Malaria a way of life ??
Imagine, parasites multiplying, each day in our
blood cells! This would be unthinkable in the
United States!
In many communities, living with malaria
parasitesand the threats they impose becomes a
normal part of life! Yet, this is a
preventable and treatable disease !
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Its Getting Worse

• "The Malaria epidemic is like loading up seven
  Boeing 747 airliners each day, then deliberately
  crashing them into Mt. Kilimanjaro."
     Wenceslaus Kilama, Chairman, Malaria
  Foundation International, 2000.
• Unless better drugs arrive soon in their
  villages and towns, deaths from malaria will most
  likely double in coming years(Deaths from
  malaria are rising as older medicines fail by
  Claire Panosian Dunavan in DISCOVER August 2005)
• Malaria need not be fatal.  If prevention fails,
  the illness can be treated. However, the most
  effective treatments include Artemisinin-containin
  g combination therapies (ACTs) which at prices
  of 1-2 per dose - are ten times more expensive
  than traditional anti-malarials.

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Children and Malaria The Quiet Problem

• It is estimated that one to three million
  children under the age of five die every year in
  Africa from malaria. Thats bad enough, but the
  effects of malaria are even worse because of the
  global direct and indirect effects of malaria
  with close to 500 million cases worldwide. There
  are large socioeconomic ramifications for
  children, their families, and their communities.
  Millions of pregnant mothers are also
  particularly vulnerable to the disease.
• There is little awareness that Malaria kills more
  children than AIDS and Cancer combined!
• THOUSANDS of children die EACH day from malaria!

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Children with Malaria Need a Voice!

• There is no major organized malaria PR effort.
• There is no significant malaria lobby in
  Washington.
• There are minimal malaria education efforts in
  the United States.
• There are only a few limited charitable efforts
  focused exclusively on malaria.
• These problems are exacerbated by the fact that
  there is minimal focus on proper and easily
  achievable goals to eradicate malaria.
• Instead malaria is normally subsumed under the
  overall banner of world poverty and global
  health.

• Malaria needs to stand out on its own. Only by
  making malaria an independent cause can it be
  eradicated.

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Global Attention is Growing Malaria, 1992 2005
Malaria Foundation International
(MFI) 1992 -Multilateral Initiative on
Malaria (MIM) 1997 -Roll Back Malaria
Partnership (RBM) 1998 -Bill Melinda Gates
Foundation Supported Programs 1999 -Global Fund
for AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
2001 -Malaria Research Development
Alliance 2004 -United States Presidential
Initiative Fighting Malaria in Africa 2005
These and other recent efforts indicate the
worlds growing commitment
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A highly expanded effort is now needed.

• CHILDREN CONTINUE TO DIE EVERY 30 seconds..

This is why the Hedge Fund Community is teaming
up with the MFI to bring exceptional business
and marketing skills and help focus attention
and work on this disease.
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Hedge Funds vs. Malaria Goals

• Immediate Goals (underway)
• Get the Hedge Fund Community actively involved
  fighting malaria
• Raise individual and media awareness of malaria
• Support non-profit organizations dedicated to
  malaria
• Establish Malaria Free Zones (MFZs)
• Long Term Goals
• Raise political awareness and education on
  malaria
• Raise money to research and control malaria
• Implement programs that save lives, protect
  people, and stimulate investments in affected
  communities

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What is the MFI?

• Since 1992, the Malaria Foundation International
  (MFI) has led the fight against malaria as a true
  grass roots effort raising public awareness and
  education about malaria.
• The MFI mission is to facilitate the development
  and implementation of solutions to the
• health, economic and social problems caused by
  malaria.
• The MFI developed the 1st malaria website
  (malaria.org) in 1995 and the 1st major global
  media attention in 1997, and has partnered with
  many individuals and groups who have since
  joined this cause. The MFI is the first
  501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to malaria. The
  MFI has proven itself as an organization with a
  neutral, international, respected reputation for
  taking a stand, getting things done and
  being there for the long haul.

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Embracing Humanity Worldwidewww.malaria.org
Maintain PremiereMalaria Website www.malaria.org
Promote Malaria Training, Research and Education
MFILeadership
Engage People andEmpower Donors
SupportMalaria Project Pioneers
Champion Malaria Advocacy Campaigns
Develop Student LeadersAgainst Malaria
Support New Initiatives Against Malaria
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Hedge Funds vs. Malaria Business Leadership
ConferencesDeveloping Leaders to Lead the Fight
Against Malaria

• Attract attendees by providing an interesting
  format to learn about malaria worldwide, with an
  emphasis on Africa (where the greatest burden
  exists), global economics and marketing
  strategies from world leaders in their respective
  fields.
• The goal is to generate long-term interest
  amongst the speakers and attendees in fighting
  malaria, and to raise money for malaria-related
  charities.
• 100 of the money that is raised will be used to
  fight malaria.
• The MFIs Hedge Funds vs. Malaria conference at
  Emory University will act as a galvanizing event
  to involve more people in the fight against
  malaria.
• Why Emory University? Emory has a demonstrated
  commitment to Global Health and Outreach Projects
  in collaboration with the Carter Center. The
  MFIs Founder, Dr. Mary Galinski, is a member of
  Emory Universitys faculty. She heads the
  Universitys Malaria Research and Outreach
  Programs.

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Hedge Funds vs. Malaria Conference Speaker
List

• CONFIRMED TO DATE 15 November 2005
  
• Wen Kilama, PhD, Founder and Managing Trustee,
  African Malaria Network Trust (AMANET), and
  2006-2009 Head of the worlds Multilateral
  Initiative on Malaria, Tanzania.
• Robert S. Desowitz, PhD, Professor Emeritus,
  Malaria Expert and Distinguished Author of
  popular books on Malaria, Infectious Diseases and
  Tropical Medicine, North Carolina.
• George B.N. Ayittey, PhD, Distinguished Economist
  at American University and President of the Free
  Africa Foundation, which is implementing MFZs in
  Africa, Washington, D.C.
• Cindy Korir, PhD and Titus Korir, Corporate
  Affairs Director, James Finlay Ltd, and supporter
  of the MFIs Student Leaders Against Malaria
  project, Kenya.
• David Robertson, Adventure Explorer and founder
  of the Drive Against Malaria campaign to raise
  political awareness and support against malaria
  in Africa.
• Steffond Johnson, Retired NBA basketball player,
  entrepreneurial owner of Beyond the Game
  trademark, and leading advocate in the fight
  against malaria who is working to engage sports
  figures, Texas.
• Jeffrey D. Sachs, PhD, Distinguished Economist,
  Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia
  University, and author of The End of Poverty, New
  York (video presentation)
• Stephen Thompson, PhD, Chief Executive Officer,
  Immtech International, Inc. and developer of new
  anti-malaria drugs with a plant being developed
  in China.
• Wilbur K. Milhous, PhD, Chief Science Officer for
  Experimental Therapeutics and Malaria Expert,
  Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR),
  Maryland.
• Marc Daniel Gutekunst, PhD, DIHTM, MPH,
  Co-Chairman, Forging New Tomorrows, Inc. and
  Co-Founder CEO, DeKalb International Training
  Center (DITC), the Living legacy to the 1996
  Atlanta Olympic Games, Atlanta, GA.
• Devin Hosea - Managing Director at Ritchie
  Capital Management, a 3.5 billion multistrategy
  hedge fund and CEO American Biophysics
  Corporation.
• Phyllis Kurlander Costanza, Member, Board of
  Trustees, The Childrens Investment Fund
  Foundation, Atlanta, GA
• Ann Wilson Cramer - Director for IBM Corporate
  Community Relations Public Affairs in North
  America.

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Charitable Donations
Conference proceeds will support Malaria
Foundation International goals and the MFIs
continued partnership with the Hedge Fund
Community.

• Project Visionaries (100,000)
• Keystone Partners (25,000 - 99,999)
• Golden Participants (10,000 - 24,999)
• Silver Participants (5,000 - 9,999)
• Supporters (1,000 - 4,999)
• Volunteers (Contribution of choice)
• You must register by December 2, 2005
• to appear in the program
• Larger donations welcome, with collaborative
  discussions and support

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Hedge Funds vs. Malaria (Register on line at
www.malaria.org, or by e-mail HedgeFunds_at_malaria.
org) Please register me for the 1st Atlanta
Hedge Funds vs. Malaria Business Leadership
Conference in partnership with the Malaria
Foundation International and hosted by Emory
University in Atlanta, GA on Tuesday December 6,
2005 at the Emory University Law School, 1302
Clifton Road, Tull Auditorium. Name______________
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Categories Project Visionaries (100,000) Keyston
e Partners (25,000 - 99,999) Golden
Participants (10,000 - 24,999) Silver
Participants (5,000 - 9,999) Supporters (1,000
- 4,999) Volunteers (Contribution of
choice) You must e-mail pledges to Dr. Kathryn
Nason-Burchenal HedgeMalaria_at_malaria.org by
December 2, 2005 to appear in the
program Please make checks payable to Malaria
Foundation International 2120 Spencers Way Stone
Mountain, GA 30087 For further Information call
[phone] (Dr. Mary Galinski) or e-mail
HedgeMalaria_at_malaria.org
Everyone Welcome
Everyone Welcome
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Hedge Funds vs. Malaria

• The fight against malaria requires the
  participation of all kinds of professionals
  business, medical, scientific, public health,
  education, etc.
• The Malaria Foundation International and Emory
  University are proud to work with the Hedge Fund
  Community and others to engage new leaders to
  help make malaria a disease of the past.

We will look forward to welcoming you on
December 6, 2005 at Emory University, an
academic institution committed to Global Health