The money will support a new Global Malaria Action Plan. The plan aims to stop the disease in Africa by 2015. Malaria is not limited to Africa, but 90% of deaths happen south of the Sahara. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said the plan will not only support bed nets, but research, cutting drug costs and expanding health care systems.

Governments and international groups spent a billion dollars on malaria programs last year. But the Roll Back Malaria Partnership says the worl shoul spent world should spend more than 5 times that amount. It says doing so could save 4,000,000 lives by 2015. The partnetship partnership includes United Nations agencies, the World Bank and leading drug makers.

Earlier this month, the World Health Organization released its World Malaria report Report for 2008. The report present presented sharply lower estimates of malaria cases than in the past. W. H. O. officials say the corrections were mostly the result of better methods of collecting information.