ABSTRACT
The UN Millennium Project Task Force on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Essential Medicines aimed to devise a framework to accelerate the implementation of strategies for achieving Millennium Development Goal 6 to combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, with specific health improvements to be attained during the period 2005–15. Within this task force, the Working Group on Malaria has sought to develop an operational framework for relieving the burden that malaria imposes on society. 1 Although this objective applies throughout the world's tropics, the need is particularly urgent in tropical Africa. The aim is to improve human well-being immediately while ultimately promoting economic growth.
