Thank you. That's an excellent question.
I also visited Ethiopia earlier this year. Ethiopia is actually the country that has received the highest amount of funding. It's a very large country in Africa, a very poor country, with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the world and with a very high disease burden. Therefore, we allocated big grants to Ethiopia; it has indeed gone significantly beyond the strict funding to the three diseases. It has, with our funding, significantly improved its health systems, particularly at the community level.
Maybe you have seen some of these health outreach workers and the kinds of rural health posts that the Government of Ethiopia has also helped to establish with funding from the Global Fund. These health extension workers hand out malaria drugs and do HIV testing and counselling, but they're also available for other diseases. So it's not strictly limited to the three diseases; it is really strengthening the health system in Ethiopia from the bottom up, and I think that's an excellent example.
Overall we can say that about one-third of our resources go into health system strengthening. It's not just drugs and bed nets. Really, training, health facilities, and management of health programs are supported with this funding. You're absolutely right when you say that it has to go hand in hand, because we need sustainable health systems in these countries, particularly in the low-income countries.
Bangladesh, by the way, would be another interesting example. TB is a huge problem in Bangladesh, where we have been investing. Fortunately, there are also countries that are now graduating into middle-income country status. That reduces the dependency in the medium term on an institution like the Global Fund, which I think will be helpful. Therefore, we need to focus on the poorest countries with the poorest health systems and strengthen them so that we can see long-term results.