Global funding for malaria control has risen signiicantly in recent years. The Roll Back Malaria Partnership estimates that interna- tional funding has grown from $250 million in 2004 to $700 million in 2007, with funding expected to have reached $ billion in 2008 alone, due largely to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the World Bank; the . President’s Malaria Initiative and others. 6 Many African countries recently achieved unprecedented success in obtaining Global Fund resources in the latest round of malaria grant applications (box 2). And in 2008, world leaders committed billions more towards malaria control. Indeed, a new.
