The PM moved quickly between three key events at the UN high-level summit on development late yesterday.At a press briefing for the Global Campaign on Health group Gordon Brown announced a $1 billion plan to fund improvements in local health care and cut maternal and infant deaths in developing countries.
The PM will co-chair a new task force with Robert Zoellick of the World Bank to oversee progress on the initiative.
Next, at a discussion forum on malaria, the PM and other leading figures endorsed a new action plan that includes a cash injection of $1.1 billion from the World Bank to eradicate malaria deaths entirely by 2015.
Finally, Mr Brown joined the launch of Education for All: Class of 2015, a new effort to realise the Millennium Development Goal of getting all children into education by 2015. The PM signed a book pledging his commitment alongside other leaders and figures such as Queen Rania of Jordan and U2 singer Bono.
Development Secretary Douglas Alexander reflects ona week of action at the United Nations in his diary:
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