Industry committee  That's right. It's a tender process, and it also has to its benefit the bulk-buy aspects, so they can get a lot better price and insist on good quality. That's how the Global Fund actually does it, through a mechanism called the voluntary pooled procurement system, and it is actu

Industry committee  I don't have the actual numbers of the drugs here per se. I mean, it's also bed nets. Well, maybe I do actually. No, I don't, but I can give you a quantification in terms of the actual resources. The Global Fund, until this week's replenishment, had at this point a $20 billion

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Sure.

Industry committee  That's correct. I wanted to add to my colleague's answer a few other issues related to your earlier question. There are also issues or gaps in laboratory and diagnostic services. In some of these countries, people are misdiagnosed—quite badly misdiagnosed—for a long period of

Industry committee  Canada has just recently committed an additional $30 million to the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV as part of the Canadian HIV vaccine initiative. That is one example. We have other funding with various multilateral organizations, UNICEF and the WHO, whose cons

Industry committee  The HIV vaccine at this point, unhappily, doesn't yet exist. The initiative is about providing incentives to the development of such a vaccine.

Industry committee  The prevention of the mother-to-child transmission component of that initiative was put in place. We insisted on it as a stop-gap measure while a vaccine was still under development, and we hope it will be soon, but we don't know how long that process will take. The infection rat

Industry committee  Yes, I'd be happy to answer that question. My colleague already provided some indication of the kinds of multilateral partners we work with. The Global Fund, which is a large multilateral fund to which Canada has just recently provided a large contribution again, spends approxim