I think your observation reflects that over the past year we've been working with many of the developing countries, and they've put together plans. They have health plans that we are contributing to and supporting. The other very important movement I see, particularly in those countries that are willing to take responsibility, is that they see economic growth as very critical to their long-term stability. These are countries that are willing to invest to their capacity into economic growth.
As you know, in Haiti we've recently completed a dialogue with the Haitian government, which came up with a plan to reduce poverty. It is founded and based on the economic growth of Haiti. It's in concert with the United Nations, which undertook with Professor Collier from the U.K. to look at what would be long-term opportunities for Haiti.
It has been observed in many countries that aid and development have been undertaken, but again, people are frustrated because there doesn't seem to be the progress that people would like to have seen. When a country indicates that economic growth is important to them, we have to now move. We've seen the success of micro-credit, and what they're asking from us is this: how do those people who benefited from micro-credit move to the SME level? So we're working and putting our support behind that, because we believe, coupled with our efforts in vocational training, making sure we work with our other country partners on infrastructure needs, that that will create the jobs.
I think we would all agree that nobody wants to continually be receiving handouts. What they want are the opportunities to better themselves, to improve their incomes, so they can provide for themselves and their families. So you're seeing a little bit of that trend.
Will we be reducing in the health area? Absolutely not. We will not. If you look at our health commitments and our support for the global fund for AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria--the catalytic initiatives are extra-supportive for tuberculosis--our commitment to stay in Afghanistan and support the polio eradication campaign, you will see we're committed to health.
You have to couple that with our intent in our food security theme, to increase the attention of the world and our own efforts in the micro-nutrient nutrition provisions there. When you put this all together, we are not abandoning health, absolutely not. We're going to find the most effective ways, as we're doing everywhere else, but we also want to support countries that are now indicating that they want to start taking responsibility themselves, and we'll share in that responsibility.