It's an excellent question.
The only segment of the population where we are not seeing the reductions in HIV transmissions that we expect is adolescent girls in sub-Saharan Africa. It's a particularly vulnerable group. Obviously, this is intimately tied to broader questions of bodily autonomy and gender equality.
Our primary partner for work on HIV is the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. I have the great privilege to serve as a board member on that organization. We are really ensuring that, from a top-down perspective, this specific segment becomes a much greater focus for the Global Fund's HIV efforts. It's fantastic that the Global Fund is able to ensure that all countries in sub-Saharan Africa have access to the ART treatments that everyone requires to be able to manage the infection. But we're really going to scale up the attention to prevention with adolescent girls over this coming strategy cycle.
I was recently in Ghana, and I spent time with the Global Fund. I was very impressed, working with nurses, doctors and community health workers, by how they respond to people with HIV infections very well, getting those case levels right down to zero so there isn't further transmission. But where there is an opportunity for more is on the prevention side. It's directly related to bodily autonomy, because an adolescent girl has to be able to choose who her partners are. She has to have effective systems to prevent and address the incidence of SGBV that she could be subject to. Without protection for bodily autonomy, it becomes very difficult to ensure that she is able to protect herself from HIV transmissions in the way that we would want.
Mr. Chair, the honourable member is pointing to an area of very high priority for me personally and for the department over the coming years.