I'd like to respond.
Thank you very much for the question and also for amplifying the understanding that when we talk about sexual and reproductive health and rights, it's much broader than any one issue.
For the Canadian support, which has been steadfast, we're ever grateful. It also tends to come early enough in the year for us to make a difference and to plan properly. When COVID struck, I absolutely charged my team with not allowing COVID to become an excuse for not making progress toward 2030. I'm proud to say that last year—and it wasn't easy—even despite, as you know, a loss of U.S.A. funding over the past four years, we did not notice a drop. However, the impact of COVID on economies we know will be much different in 2021.
Here, I do have a great deal of anxiety and sleepless nights knowing that acts of international solidarity can sometimes be seen in competition with what's going on at home. Here, I also believe that the devastating impact of the world economic crisis has a gendered dimension as well, as women are caretakers of the elderly and of children, as women are 70% of the health workforce. All of this worries me very much.
I would hasten to add that, in the humanitarian circumstances, the need has increased. Our appeal for $800 million U.S. to help during the COVID humanitarian crisis.... I have to say that it's a desperate situation, and I don't think that it will be fulfilled.