This article is part of the supplement: Towards a research agenda for global malaria elimination .

Introduction

A golden age for malaria research and innovation

Awa Marie Coll-Seck

Executive Director, Roll Back Malaria Partnership, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland

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Malaria Journal 2008, 7(Suppl 1):S2doi:10.1186/1475-2875-7-S1-S2

Published:	11 December 2008

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The Roll Back Malaria partnership – a consortium of donor and malaria-endemic countries, researchers, policy-makers and private sector enterprises – has helped change the global perspective on malaria. Today, malaria is high on the development agenda, financial resources for countries have increased, more and more success stories in countries are being documented and there is renewed hope that the disease can be beaten. Today, there is new momentum.