(6) Nutritional and health education for the 
mother and provision of nutritional resources for the 
mother and child during the first 1,000 days of life, 
from conception to 2 years of age provided through 
coordination with the office leading on global food 
security. 
(7) Training and dissemination of natural fer-
tility awareness based methods in accordance with 
evidence-based non-abortive practices. 
(8) Promote increasing fathers’ support and in-
volvement for mothers and children. 
(c) IMPLEMENTATION.—The Secretary of State shall 
prioritize the implementation of the program established 
by subsection (a) in collaboration with new and existing 
global health partnerships deemed to be efficient and reli-
able in the expenditure of taxpayer dollars, prioritizing 
local faith-based providers and faith-based organizations 
with strong local partnerships and which have experience 
and expertise in maternal and child health delivery in re-
source-limited settings. 
SEC. 5. AMENDMENT TO EXISTING LAW AND AVAILABILITY 
OF FUNDS. 
(a) AMENDMENT.—Section 104(c) of the Foreign As-
sistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(c)) is amended to 
read as follows: 
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‘‘(c) MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH AND NUTRI-
TION.—Assistance under this section shall prioritize ma-
ternal and child health interventions consistent with the 
Safe Passages Maternal and Child Health Program estab-
lished by section 4 of the Safe Passages Act of 2025, in-
cluding prevention and treatment of obstetric complica-
tions, such as hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, sepsis, 
obstructed labor, and neonatal resuscitation; support for 
maternal nutrition; health care for the child throughout 
the first 1,000 days of life from conception to approxi-
mately 2 years of age; and support for fathers to care for 
mothers and their children. Such assistance shall promote 
natural methods of fertility awareness and shall not be 
used for abortion or abortion-related services.’’. 
(b) AVAILABILITY.—Notwithstanding any other pro-
vision of law, the President, acting through the Secretary 
of State, shall, from funds made available under the Glob-
al Health Programs account, make available not less than 
$400,000,000 annually to carry out section 4 of this Act 
and subsection (c) of section 104 of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961, as amended by subsection (a), including 
for life-affirming maternal and child health programs 
that— 
(1) focus on the prevention of maternal, fetal, 
and neonatal deaths; 
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(2) promote natural methods of fertility aware-
ness and couple-centered care; 
(3) provide training and emergency response to 
the 5 leading causes of maternal mortality: hemor-
rhage, hypertensive disorders, sepsis and infections, 
obstructed labor and uterine rupture, and mis-
carriage, to include surgical management of obstet-
rical emergencies and pregnancy complications (not 
to include elective abortions); 
(4) provide training and response for the lead-
ing causes of maternal late postpartum complica-
tions: severe anemia, neurological and cardiovascular 
injury following hypertensive disorders, fistula, hem-
orrhage, infections, and postpartum mental health 
conditions; 
(5) provide training and emergency response to 
the leading causes of infant mortality: premature 
birth, birth complications (birth asphyxia/trauma), 
intrauterine growth restriction, and neonatal sepsis 
and infections; 
(6) uphold life-affirming care for both mother 
and child; and 
(7) engage fathers in these life-affirming mater-
nal and child health programs as well as in the care 
of the mothers and their children. 
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SEC. 6. REPORTING AND OVERSIGHT. 
Not later than 2 years after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, the Secretary 
of State shall submit to Congress a report detailing— 
(1) the number of trainings offered, providers 
and cadres trained, including midwives, physicians, 
community health workers, nurses, physician assist-
ants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, laboratory 
technicians, and other birth attendants, and the con-
tent of the training curricula; 
(2) the effectiveness of such trainings, meas-
ured rigorously and objectively, to determine im-
provements in knowledge and skills through pre- and 
post-training assessments; 
(3) initial and annual co-investments made by 
private industry and foreign governments; 
(4) sustainability plans and timelines for orga-
nizations and governments receiving assistance; 
(5) the number of facilities receiving support 
for facility upgrades (such as basic lab tests, blood 
transfusion services, second-line uterotonics for 
postpartum hemorrhage, broad spectrum antibiotics, 
referral and transport systems for rural health-care 
facilities, and ultrasound services for recognition and 
management of high-risk pregnancies), and the na-
ture of the upgrades; 
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(6) any support provided for establishment of 
revolving capital funds; 
(7) community- and hospital-level data on ma-
ternal, fetal, neonatal and infant morbidity and mor-
tality, presented as a comparison between areas 
served and not served; 
(8) regions and facilities served; 
(9) estimated maternal and child lives saved; 
and 
(10) compliance with United States foreign as-
sistance restrictions and goals of this Act. 
Æ 
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