Jinny Sims at the Foreign Affairs and International Development Committee

On October 27th, 2011. See this statement in context.

October 27th, 2011 / 9:10 a.m.

NDP

Jinny Sims NDP Newton—North Delta, BC

Thank you.

First of all, I want to thank both of you for the very informative presentation. We all know that the link among AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria is there. I attended a health care forum recently at which they talked to us about the essential need to connect treatment for tuberculosis with HIV treatments and diagnostics as well. That becomes really critical.

I noticed in the report you have just made that Canada has committed $1.5 billion to the Global Fund, but we have disbursed $978.4 million. Is there a timeline to our disbursements? Could you expand on that for me, please, Paul?

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