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Editorial: Commercial sector partnerships for malaria control

The WHO-led ‘Roll Back Malaria’ (RBM) initiative opens the possibility for malaria control programmes to look to new and broader strategies in the fight against malaria. Through the RBM movement there is closer collaboration with UNICEF, World Bank, UNDP and other public organizations involved with health, economic and community development (Nabarro & Tayler 1998). The commercial sector represents another force that can be tapped by national malaria programmes to increase the reach and sustainability of both preventative and curative services. Here we outline a model for engaging the commercial sector in launching a nationwide insecticide-treated materials (ITM) initiative in Ghana, and how the model can be used with the pharmaceutical sector to promote a national malaria drug policy.