Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you very much for being here today. I think this is a discussion that Canadians need to hear, and I think Canadians will be very proud, quite frankly, to hear about the good work we've done. Contrary to what my colleague has said, Canada has doubled its aid to Africa, and we have been very generous in our contributions in Haiti and Afghanistan. Many of these countries are seeing some real changes because of the contributions Canada is making.
Dr. Benn, this is one of the things I would like to hear about, if I may. It's one thing to contribute to the Global Fund and to continue to give medications to individuals, but unless we see some changes in capacity building in these countries, we are going to be in this constant revolving door of having to make contributions. I'm sure the demand is always going to be greater than the supply.
I've been to Bangladesh and have seen some of the things they're doing there in creating community health services. I was just recently in Ethiopia and saw some of the CIDA work going on there. I wonder if you could speak to some of those issues about how we move these countries from just providing...? It's wonderful what we're doing in getting medication to 3.1 million people. That's an enormous job. How do we move beyond that and how do we help build capacity so there is a long-term goal that we're reaching?