Preliminaries -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Glossary -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Initial assessment and planning -- Chapter 3 Surveillance -- Chapter 4 Outbreak preparedness and response -- Chapter 5 Case management -- Chapter 6 Prevention -- Chapter 7 Community participation and health education -- Chapter 8 Operational research -- I Resources and web addresses -- II Example consent form for surveys -- III Worksheet Rapid cross sectional malaria prevalence survey -- IV Safety of antimalarial drugs for treatment and/or prophylaxis during pregnancy breastfeeding and early childhood -- V Dosage schedules for oral antimalarial drugs -- VI Entomological investigations -- VII Questions to guide a rapid qualitative assessment of social, economic and cultural aspects of malaria -- VIII A checklist for effectively responding to malaria epidemics.