Thank you.
For the first eight years, I would say, the Global Fund indeed had sufficient resources to fund all the proposals that were presented to it.
I have to say one word on that. We have an independent technical review panel. This means that all of the proposals we receive from countries are independently reviewed not by the Global Fund secretariat itself, but by international experts, and they normally recommend for funding about 50% of the proposals coming from the countries.
We have been able, so far, to fund these kinds of recommended proposals, but obviously the current global economic and financial crisis is also affecting the Global Fund significantly. At the moment, it is difficult to fund those proposals and, given the way it looks, it may become even more difficult in the next few years. We have to realize, of course, that it's also the poorest countries that are suffering from this crisis, and it's the poorest people in those countries who are affected by tuberculosis, AIDS, and malaria.
Therefore, we are trying to communicate to our donors and to the world that it's very important to maintain this commitment, even while we understand the budgetary pressures in many donor countries. It's important to maintain this commitment because the very impressive progress I've just described is obviously also fragile. We need to maintain that, not for only the millions of people on treatment, but because even the impressive progress on malaria could be reversed if we can't maintain that support to the countries.