The Bush administration hopes to persuade Congress to at least triple spending on malaria control to $300 million by 2008.

Global aid for malaria control has been rising, though the resources do not match the scale of the dying, critics say.

It has already given $177 million for malaria controls.

"The development of a malaria vaccine will not alone solve all our problems in malaria control."

The government continues to face serious problems, including an uncertain economic outlook, deforestation, and malaria control.

However impractical, King was on the right track for malaria control, well in advance of the rest of the medical profession.

"Clearly, things are not going well with malaria control," the draft of the speech he was to give to the world's health ministers said.

Spatial medical intelligence is central to the effective planning of malaria control and elimination.

The benefit of malaria control has to be weighed against potential problems.

There are concerns about the global funding of malaria control which is expected to peak at $2bn this year and fall to $1.5bn in 2015.