Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, you definitely are. I think Canada has a great history in its support of tuberculosis programs. I am quite aware that Canada has also played a leading role in the establishment of the Stop TB Partnership. I can't say what your share in TB Reach is, but I believe Canada has

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much, honourable chairman, and all members of Parliament and of this committee. It's always a special pleasure for me to be here with you. I've been able to talk to you several times and to update you on what's happening, not just in the Global Fund but also on g

Foreign Affairs committee  Absolutely.

Foreign Affairs committee  Roughly half of the AIDS resources go into prevention and half go into treatment. Prevention is a very important part. Prevention has to be targeted. In some cases it's education. In some cases now it's male circumcision. That would be something, by the way, for miners as well. M

Foreign Affairs committee  Like all the industries, I think extractives feel the most pain of these diseases because it affects their workers in a kind of special way. There's HIV and TB co-infection in mines, particularly in the southern Africa region where there are lots of mines. That's why it is more a

Foreign Affairs committee  I wish I had more time to talk about results because I would be more than happy to do so. I think we have very impressive results. That's one of the reasons Bill Gates is such a great supporter of the Global Fund as well. Very briefly in a few seconds, TB mortality has gone dow

Foreign Affairs committee  We have a very concrete proposal for the mining industry that we do a program together, where we put in, for example, $100 million, and the mining industry itself puts in, let's say, $40 million. We address specifically the TB and HIV problems around the kind of mining communitie

Foreign Affairs committee  It is of course, because it helps to create that momentum. While formally the pledging is in the fall, if some countries indicate early enough, that provides momentum for others. In the case of the U.S., because they're working on a different timeline—President Obama came out wit

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. That is a very important question. We have an excellent track record when it comes to the conversion of pledges and contributions. At the last replenishment conference in New York, in 2010, we received pledges from governments in the order of $9.2 billion,

Foreign Affairs committee  When we had our pledging at the replenishment conference in Brussels in April, we presented the $15 billion. We described the $15 billion in a slightly different way. This is not about the Global Fund as an institution. I wouldn't say the Global Fund needs $15 billion. What we sa

Foreign Affairs committee  Most of all it would send a very negative signal to the other donors and it would make it almost impossible for us to leverage the U.S. contribution. As I indicated, a number of countries, even among European countries that are struggling with their economies—we are looking at so

Foreign Affairs committee  We will have a pledging conference towards the end of the year. I can't give you the date yet. We're expecting that in November. It's usually called by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. That is the moment when all the donors, including Canada, are expected to make their announcem

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you so much to all of you to make this time. We fully appreciate that this is an extremely busy period and that you are between important votes. That you're still giving us the time is a great honour for us. I will try to be as brief as po

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes.

Foreign Affairs committee  Right. We'll have to see whether we can provide that, Svend. The percentage in terms of funding will be fairly small and we have to look into whether we have a breakdown on that. We obviously have much more comprehensive reports than what I presented here to you, which is our