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Open letter to international funders of science and development in Africa

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To the Editor—Recently there was an announcement1 of a US$30 million grant awarded to the nonprofit health organization PATH by the US government’s President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). The grant funded a consortium of seven institutions in the USA, the UK and Australia to support African countries in the improved use of data for decision-making in malaria control and elimination.

Not one African institution was named in the press release. The past year has been full of calls from staff and collaborators of various public-health entities for equality and inclusion, so one might imagine that such a partnership to support Africa should be led from Africa by African scientists, partnering with Western institutions where appropriate, especially where capacity has been demonstrated.

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  1. PATH. https://www.path.org/media-center/path-announces-pmi-inform-malaria-operational-research-project/ (10 February 2021).

  2. World Health Organization & RBM Partnership to End Malaria. High burden to high impact: a targeted malaria response (WHO, 2019).

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  1. Aspen Institute, Washington, DC, USA

    Ngozi A. Erondu, Ifeyinwa Aniebo, Janet Midega & Fredros Okumu

  2. O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Ngozi A. Erondu

  3. Health Strategy and Delivery Foundation, Lagos, Nigeria

    Ifeyinwa Aniebo

  4. Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Ifeyinwa Aniebo

  5. African Population Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya

    Catherine Kyobutungi

  6. Wellcome Trust, London, UK

    Janet Midega

  7. KEMRI Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

    Emelda Okiro

  8. Ifakara Health Institute, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Fredros Okumu

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All authors were involved in the original drafting, reviewing, and editing of this letter and gave final approval of the version to be published. N.A.E. attests that all authors listed meet authorship criteria and that no others meeting the criteria have been omitted. This letter is signed in an individual capacity. The views and opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect that of any organization they (the authors) are associated with or employed by.

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Erondu, N.A., Aniebo, I., Kyobutungi, C. et al. Open letter to international funders of science and development in Africa. Nat Med 27, 742–744 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-021-01307-8

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