Thank you for the question.
There is no shortage of health fora around the world, where these things are brought up. Developing countries come together with donors, UN agencies, and other multilateral bodies, such as the global fund, to discuss health issues.
There's absolutely no shortage in Canada. As a participant in global health issues, I wouldn't say we're present at every single health conference. But we are there when it's relevant and when we feel it's an important issue. Absolutely this is an issue that we raise and discuss on every occasion when it makes the most sense. We are doing this from international AIDS conferences to high level fora on health.
A colleague of mine is going to a meeting on access to medicines later this week in the United Kingdom.
We're supporting a meeting here in Ottawa, which my colleague Doug Clark spoke about, that's bringing developing countries together with government officials, NGOs, and members of industry to talk specifically about access to medicines and to look at some of the challenges faced by both developing countries and industry in accomplishing this.
One of the key issues, which we need to understand, is that the Government of Canada is not providing the medicines. Canada's manufacturers and pharmaceutical industry will ultimately be providing the medicines around the world. Efforts are called for to bring these together as well.