I'm glad you raised that point because it is indeed very important.
The Global Fund has been doing gender analysis for many years. The board approved a gender equity policy in 2008, which is a long time ago. This is one of the elements that has received much more focus in the new strategy, and for a very good reason. These three diseases, but HIV in particular, have a huge gender focus. With respect to HIV, one particular area of concern is the extremely high infection rates we are still seeing, particularly in southern Africa, among young girls and women. They are affected quite disproportionately in comparison with young men. We know that unless we address that effectively, we will not be able to end HIV as an epidemic.
I mentioned TB and drug resistance as one of the challenges. With HIV, though, the challenge is clearly the very high infection rates among young women.
We now design, together with those countries and many other partners, and Canada is one of the key partners, programs that are able to directly address the needs of girls and young women. There is also a very clear link, by the way, to education. One of the most effective ways to prevent these infection rates is to provide education.
With every year you keep girls in school, particularly in secondary school, you see that the risk of HIV infection goes down. It is one of our absolute priorities, not only the focus on gender and specifically designed programs, but also the link between health and education because that is one of the ways to address that effectively.