Thank you.
I'm going to take a couple of minutes to ask you a final question. It's related to a topic raised by my colleague earlier, which was around crisis management and the ability of the Global Fund to activate in humanitarian crisis situations.
I want to reflect for a moment on the situation in Venezuela. A report jointly authored by Human Rights Watch and the Johns Hopkins school was covered in the news this morning in the U.K. It's reflecting on the need for the UN to declare a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, because of the complete meltdown of health care services there.
In particular as it relates to the areas covered by the Global Fund, the cases of malaria have increased over tenfold over the last number of years, with over 400,000 reported cases in 2018, I think it was. Again, we know there's a focus and when we look at the dispersal of services, sub-Saharan Africa certainly seems to be the largest area. I know quite a small amount was going to South America, Latin America.
Can you talk to us a little about the availability of the Global Fund to react in a crisis situation, maybe even particularly in the case of Venezuela? As we heard in this committee just the other day about the situation facing the population, both those fleeing the borders—and we know that borders don't matter where these sorts of diseases are concerned—and those under the repression of the Maduro regime. The health impacts on the population have been dramatic and horrific.