Thank you.
First, I have one comment on Europe. It's true that European donors are extremely important for the Global Fund. We are receiving about 50% of our resources from the member states of the European Union, and therefore we are very closely following the current discussion on the euro crisis. There was some good news last night, I understand, with some decisions there.
But fortunately, many of the main members of the European Union are maintaining or even increasing their ODA. The United Kingdom was mentioned. Germany is also slightly increasing its ODA. The Scandinavian countries are doing very well. It is the southern European countries that are our biggest worry, and they belong to our major donors like Spain and Italy.... So there is some worry there, although I would say that so far we have been able to maintain a very high commitment.
But you're absolutely right; because of that, we are focusing quite significantly on the emerging economies, the G-20. Exactly as you said, the benefit is that many of them also have experienced support from the Global Fund. China, India, and Brazil have received money from the Global Fund and are now turning into donors. The first country to do so was Russia, which has now become a net donor after receiving some funding for their initial HIV and TB programs.
We are receiving some money from China and some from India. That needs to continue, and that needs to grow, because there is not yet this kind of culture, I would say, of international solidarity, of development aid. That's maybe one thing on which I would also ask for your support. I think a country like Canada can be very helpful as a member of the G-8 and the G-20 in talking to these new emerging economies and making the appeal to them that in the future they will probably have to play a more substantial role here in helping poorer countries that have not yet reached the kind of income level and economic growth that they have. That could be quite helpful.
We are working quite a lot on this and see it as a future way of helping us to finance the programs in the poorest countries.