ABSTRACT
The UN Millennium Project Working Group on Malaria has focused on developing and designing strategic frameworks that would ensure implementation of antimalarial interventions covering as many residents of endemic sites as possible and incorporating components tuned to local conditions. Accordingly, the working group now seeks to develop malaria control strategies based on integrated packages of interventions designed to improve health nationally while also promoting economic development locally. The components of these proposed strategies include early diagnosis of clinically apparent infection; treating with effective antimalarial medicines; using insecticide-treated bed-nets; applying indoor residual spraying; appropriately managing the environment; improving housing for and extending health education to all residents of endemic sites; and improving monitoring and evaluation systems.
