Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, human rights are one of our key priorities in many different ways, not only because we believe deeply in human rights, but because by protecting human rights of people, particularly key affected populations, marginalized populations, men who have sex with men, comme

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm very glad you're raising that question because health and education go hand in hand. I was at the GPE replenishment; I was invited to the GPE as a close partner because that's how we understand that. We work together as partners because often you cannot achieve the full impac

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, Vice-Chairs O'Toole and Laverdière, and honourable members of the committee. I'm pleased to meet you. It is indeed a distinct honour and privilege for me to be here, particularly today. I have a couple of personal words before I start my comments.

Foreign Affairs committee  First of all, we do use our market share, which is pretty large, to reduce prices and make those prices available to the countries that we serve, if you like. We have been able through procurement to reduce global prices, for example, for HIV drugs, by 25% over the last two years

Foreign Affairs committee  Again, I think you're focusing mainly on HIV prevention. We'll leave the other two diseases aside for a minute.

Foreign Affairs committee  I could talk for a long time about that, because I used to work in Africa when one of the main prevention methods was to kind of engage with the cultural perceptions, particularly around sexuality, and so on, which you know is a big topic. I would say that by now, I think most c

Foreign Affairs committee  For HIV you have to look very much country by country. It's not kind of just one prevention strategy. In some countries condoms might be very important or still be important, but it always has to be complemented by a number of other strategies as well. That can be male circumcisi

Foreign Affairs committee  We have actually a very interesting and important phenomenon worldwide. Most people suffering from HIV and tuberculosis are living in middle-income countries. Actually most poor people nowadays live in middle-income countries. It's a phenomenon. Therefore, yes we need to address

Foreign Affairs committee  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 n

Foreign Affairs committee  The simple answer is that over the last, I would say, 20 years, life-saving services have been made available to many of those populations and to many of them for the first time, because indeed tuberculosis and malaria are both diseases that have been there for a long time. I ser

Foreign Affairs committee  No, it has changed also the approach somewhat. Obviously, the move from the MDGs to the SDGs has been very important for the Global Fund as for many other organizations. Fortunately, we were working at the same time on our new strategy that the board just approved a month ago for

Foreign Affairs committee  I can start, and Svend, you may want to add to that. In a sense, we at the Global Fund also had to struggle from the beginning with this kind of challenge between an emergency response and a sustainable, long-term response. When we started 15 years ago, HIV/AIDS was considered a

Foreign Affairs committee  I'll go a little bit more into how we operate. The first innovation that the Global Fund created was that in any country that we support, we ask the country to create a country coordinating mechanism. That was quite unique. This means they have to create a roundtable by the gove

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm very happy to. Thank you so much for that question. First, when the Global Fund was created, we made transparency one of the major principles that we wanted to implement in a new way. In that sense we've been quite radical in terms of transparency. All the information is m

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm really happy that you're all drawing attention to tuberculosis, because it has been around for such a long time that it doesn't have this sense of emergency, such as HIV/AIDS has had, or now all this talk about Ebola and Zika. Sometimes they forget the chronic emergencies tha