Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Rationale for a Renewed World Bank Effort on Malaria -- 2.1 Malaria Impairs Economic Growth and Human Development -- 2.2 Malaria Is Preventable and Curable,with Good Returns on Investment -- 2.3 Success Is Possible on a Large Scale -- 2.4 There is a Wide Gap between Knowing and Doing -- 2.5 The World Bank Has Underused its Comparative Advantage in Malaria Control -- 2.6 Clients and Partners Demand a Stronger World Bank Effort -- 3 Priorities and Business Model -- 4 Program of Action -- 4.1 The Program and Deliverables -- 4.2 The International Finance Corporation and the Private Sector in Malaria Control -- 4.3 Cooperation with the Global Fund and Other Major Partners in Malaria Control -- 5 The Malaria Task Force -- 5.1 Objectives -- 5.2 Oversight -- 5.3 Staffing: Secretariat and Regional Clusters -- 5.4 Financing the Malaria Task Force -- 6 Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation -- 6.1 Results Framework -- 6.2 Steps to a Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation System -- 6.3 RBM Technical Strategies and Indicators of Population Coverage -- Appendix 1 Outline of the Monitoring and Evaluation Framework -- A1.1 Support to Countries -- A1.2 Support to Regional/Global Partnerships and Collective Efforts -- A1.3 Strengthening of Bank 's Capacity to Contribute Effectively to Malaria Control -- Appendix 2 Malarial Case Notification and Coverage with Key Interventions -- Notes on Available Information -- Data Tables -- 1 Malarial Case Notification: Malaria Notifications for the Most Recent Year Information Received -- 2 Malarial Case Notification: Standardized Malaria Notifications and Notification Rates per 1,000, since 1990 -- 3 Percentage of Households That Have at Least One Mosquito Net, by Background Characteristics.

4 Percentage of Households That Have at Least One Insecticide-treated Mosquito Net, by Background Characteristics -- 5 Percentage of Children under Five Years Old That Slept under a Mosquito Net during the Night Preceding the Survey, by Backg -- 6 Percentage of Children under Five Years Old That Slept under an Insecticide-treated Mosquito Net during the Night Preceding the Survey,by Background Characteristics -- 7 Percentage of Pregnant Women That Slept under a Mosquito Net during the Night Preceding the Survey, by Background Character -- 8 Percentage of Pregnant Women That Slept under an Insecticide-treated Mosquito Net during the Night Preceding the Survey, by -- 9 Pregnant Women Receiving Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) at Least Once during Pregnancy (Community Level, Prevention or Trea -- 10 Pregnant Women Receiving Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) at Least Twice during Pregnancy (Community Level, Prevention or Tr -- 11 Pregnant Women Receiving Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) at Least Once during an Antenatal Visit, by Background Characteris -- 12 Pregnant Women Receiving Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP) at Least Twice during an Antenatal Visit, by Background Characteri -- 13 Percentage of Children under Five Years Old with Reported Fever in the Two Weeks Prior to the Survey, by Background Charac -- 14 Percentage of Febrile Children under Five Years Old That Received Treatment with Chloroquine, by Background Characteristic -- 15 Percentage of Febrile Children under Five Years Old That Received Treatment with Sulfadoxine Pyrimethamine (SP), by Backgr -- 16 Percentage of Febrile Children under Five Years Old That Received Treatment with Any Antimalarial, by Background Character -- 17 Summary of Antimalarial Drug Efficacy Results, Expressed as Treatment Failure -- Appendix 3 Four Success Stories: Malaria Control in Brazil, Eritrea, India, and Vietnam.

Appendix 4 Strategic Communications -- Appendix 5 High-Impact Partnerships: Private Sector and Civil Society -- Appendix 6 Impact of Malaria on Schoolchildren and the Education Sector -- Notes -- References -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Box 1 Malaria and Selected MDGs -- Figure 2.1 Profile in Contrasts: The Persistent Burden of Malaria in Africa -- Table 2.1 Ownership of Insecticide-treated Bed Nets in Malawi, by Income Group -- Figure 2.2 Access to Antimalarial Treatment -- Figure 2.3 The Increasing Costs of Commodities for Malaria Control -- Box 2.1 Putting the Bank's Comparative Advantage to Work: Assisting Countries to Develop Strategies for Financing Treatment w -- Figure 2.4 Effectiveness of PRSPs in Addressing Malaria -- Figure 2.5 Malaria Control Efforts Have Not Benefited from Increased Health Spending in Ghana -- Table 3.1 The Booster Program for Malaria Control:Matrix of Options for Financing and Instruments -- Table 4.1 The Booster Program for Malaria: Deliverables -- Table 5.1 Potential Staffing and Distribution of the Malaria Task Force.