Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Background -- The Booster Program for Malaria Control in Africa -- Conclusion -- 1 The Burden of Malaria in Africa -- Country-Specific Estimates of Child Deaths from Malaria in Africa -- Malaria Illness and Deaths Exacerbated by Mobile Populations and Cross-Border Movement -- The Burden of Malaria on Development in Africa -- The Malaria Burden as a Drain on Health Systems -- Prospects and Challenges for Malaria Control in Africa -- Reduced Burden-Possible and Imperative -- 2 Booster Program for Malaria Control in Africa: Phase I -- The Booster Program for Malaria Control in Africa -- Initial Results -- Challenges -- 3 Moving toward Phase II: Context and Challenges -- The "New" Elimination Agenda for Malaria Control -- A Commitment to the Concept of "Scaling Up for Impact" -- Coordination under the RBM Partnership to Scale Up for Impact -- Current Challenges -- 4 Booster Program for Malaria Control in Africa: Phase II -- A Consultative Process -- The Design of Phase II -- Estimated Resource Envelope for Phase II -- Strategic Objectives of Phase II -- Pillar 1-Regional and Cross-Border Malaria Prevention and Control -- Pillar 2-More Substantial Support to High-Burden Countries with High Unmet Needs (Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo) -- Pillar 3-Sustained Support for Ongoing Booster Projects and Targeted Support for New Country Efforts -- Pillar 4-Facilitation of Policies and Strategies to Increase Equitable Access to Effective Malaria Treatment -- Pillar 5-Strengthening of Health Systems in Booster Program Countries to Scale Up the Delivery of Malaria Control -- Monitoring and Evaluation in Phase II -- Risks Involved in Phase II Implementation -- The Cross-Sectoral Agenda -- Analytical Work.

How Phase II Can Affect Malaria Control and the Costs of the Bank's Disengaging from the Fight -- The Bank's Potential Contribution in Phase II to the Fight against Malaria -- 5 Operational Implications for the Bank -- Defining the Bank's Commitment -- Operational Implications -- Supporting the Malaria Control Effort during Phase II (2008-11) -- Implications for Staffing and Budgeting -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Malaria Scorecard -- Appendix 2: Chronology of Phase II Development -- Appendix 3: Three Largest Financiers of Malaria Control and Their Comparative Advantages -- Appendix 4: Phase II Results Framework -- Appendix 5: Three-Year Action Plan for Phase II -- Appendix 6: Regional Integration Maps -- References -- Index -- Box 2.1 The Africa Action Plan -- Box 2.2 The Booster Program's Approach to Malaria Control -- Box 2.3 Focus on Results -- Box 2.4 The Dakar Appeal -- Figure 1.1 Three Ways in Which Malaria Kills Children -- Figure 1.2 The Burden That Malaria Puts on Health Facilities -- Figure 1.3 The Distribution of Endemic Malaria in Africa -- Figure 1.4 The Proportion of Lives Saved by Key Interventions -- Figure 2.1 Ninefold Increase in Program Lending for Malaria Control in Africa since the Start of the Booster Program, FY 2000-08 -- Figure 2.2 Summary of the Bank's Malaria Control Portfolio in Africa -- Figure 2.3 Malaria Control Commitments through December 2008 -- Figure 2.4 Malaria Control Commodity Disbursements through December 2008 -- Figure 2.5 Funds Available for Malaria Control (2007) -- Figure 3.1 Malaria Control Goals and Deadlines -- Figure 3.2 The Relationship between Malaria Program Coverage Scale-Up and the Reduced Burden of Disease -- Figure 3.3 The Annual Funding Needed to Control Malaria in Africa -- Figure 3.4 The Millennium Development Goals and Malaria -- Figure 4.1 Phase II Conceptual Framework.

Figure 4.2 Results Achieved by Addressing Systems' Bottlenecks in Ethiopia and Rwanda -- Table 1.1 Characteristics That Make Controlling Malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa Particularly Challenging -- Table 2.1 Bank Lending for Malaria Control in Africa, Active and Pipeline Projects, FY 2006-08 -- Table 2.2 Partnerships That Get Results: The Three Largest Malaria Control Donors in Africa -- Table 4.1 Differences between Phase I and Phase II -- Table 4.2 Draft (Illustrative) Resource Envelope for Phase II Pillars -- Table 4.3 Potential Project Categories -- Table 4.4 Risks Involved in Implementing Phase II.