The Internet: a valuable tool for Roll Back Malaria

Roll Back Malaria (RBM) will face a tremendous challenge in halving the cur rent malaria burden by 2010. Thus, the initiative needs to explore novel an d innovative approaches. The potential of the Internet to build a virtual c ommunity and to facilitate the training of a new generation of skilled pers onel for malaria diagnosis is discussed here. We also argue that investment in information technology is crucial to achieve the goal of RBM.