Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you for being here today.
One of the core principles of the Global Fund is performance-based funding. I think it is a very strong, very powerful message to send. Billions of dollars are being spent. Ultimately, it's not countries contributing to the Global Fund; it's actually taxpayers. It's helpful for them to have it at a more tangible level.
Could you pick three countries to help people understand how this performance-based funding would work in practice? Maybe pick a star country that has shown incredible performance in some of these measurable things such as HIV infection rates or malarial infection rates, then maybe a typical country, and then maybe a country that has just not shown the performance.
What is the mechanism that kicks in, if they are not demonstrating the performance? How does the Global Fund deal with those cases? In the case of a country that has been a star performer, does the funding disappear, or does it focus on something else, maybe more on prevention rather than treatment?