successfully completed the course and over 430 candidates have registered for the course. participants have been drawn from africa, europe and the us. based on its success, amanet has acquired other resources to continue the project and also expand the e-learning opportunities to include other courses such a gcp, french version of the same course, and an advanced ethics course. the multilateral initiative on malaria from january 2006, amanet became host to the multilateral initiative on malaria secretariat. this is a global alliance of individuals, funding partners and four autonomous constituents comprising the mim secretariat, mim/tdr, mimcom and mr4. its mission is to strengthen and sustain, through collaborative research and training, to carry out research that is required to develop and improve tools for malaria control, and to strengthen the research control interphase. acknowledgements amanet acknowledges financial support from the ministry of foreign affairs (netherlands), the danish international development agency, the european commission's directorate-general research and aidco, the bill and melinda gates foundation, the european and developing countries clinical trials partnership and the african caribbean pacific (acp) secretariat for including amanet in their portfolio for edf9 support.