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Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the
‘‘Global Fund’’), and shall be expended at the minimum
rate necessary to make timely payment for projects and ac-
tivities: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated
under this heading that are available for HIV/AIDS pro-
grams and activities, not less than $28,000,000 should be
made available for the International AIDS Vaccine Initia-
tive and not less than $28,000,000 should be made available
for a United States contribution to UNAIDS: Provided fur-
ther, That of the funds appropriated under this heading,
$65,000,000 should be made available for a United States
contribution to The Vaccine Fund, and up to $6,000,000
may be transferred to and merged with funds appropriated
by this Act under the heading ‘‘Operating Expenses of the
United States Agency for International Development’’ for
costs directly related to international health, but funds
made available for such costs may not be derived from
amounts made available for contribution under this and
preceding provisos: Provided further, That restrictions with
respect to assistance provided with funds appropriated by
this Act for HIV/AIDS, family planning, or child survival
and health activities shall not be construed to restrict assist-
ance in support of programs to expand the availability and
use of condoms for HIV/AIDS prevention and of contracep-
tives to reduce the incidence of abortion: Provided further,
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That nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to alter
any existing statutory prohibitions against abortion under
section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided
further, That none of the funds made available in this Act
nor any unobligated balances from prior appropriations
may be made available to any organization or program
which, as determined by the President of the United States,
directly supports coercive abortion or involuntary steriliza-
tion: Provided further, That the previous proviso shall not
be construed to deny funding to any organization or pro-
gram solely because the government of a country engages
in coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization: Provided
further, That none of the funds made available under this
Act may be used to pay for the performance of abortion
as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce
any person to practice abortions: Provided further, That
none of the funds made available under this Act may be
used to lobby for or against abortion: Provided further, That
in order to reduce reliance on abortion in developing na-
tions, funds shall be available only to voluntary family
planning projects which offer, either directly or through re-
ferral to, or information about access to, a broad range of
family planning methods and services, and that any such
voluntary family planning project shall meet the following
requirements: (1) service providers or referral agents in the
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project shall not implement or be subject to quotas, or other
numerical targets, of total number of births, number of fam-
ily planning acceptors, or acceptors of a particular method
of family planning (this provision shall not be construed
to include the use of quantitative estimates or indicators
for budgeting and planning purposes); (2) the project shall
not include payment of incentives, bribes, gratuities, or fi-
nancial reward to: (A) an individual in exchange for be-
coming a family planning acceptor; or (B) program per-
sonnel for achieving a numerical target or quota of total
number of births, number of family planning acceptors, or
acceptors of a particular method of family planning; (3)
the project shall not deny any right or benefit, including
the right of access to participate in any program of general
welfare or the right of access to health care, as a consequence
of any individual’s decision not to accept family planning
services; (4) the project shall provide family planning ac-
ceptors comprehensible information on the health benefits
and risks of the method chosen, including those conditions
that might render the use of the method inadvisable and
those adverse side effects known to be consequent to the use
of the method; and (5) the project shall ensure that experi-
mental contraceptive drugs and devices and medical proce-
dures are provided only in the context of a scientific study
in which participants are advised of potential risks and
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benefits; and, not less than 60 days after the date on which
the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development determines that there has been a vio-
lation of the requirements contained in paragraph (1), (2),
(3), or (5) of this proviso, or a pattern or practice of viola-
tions of the requirements contained in paragraph (4) of this
proviso, the Administrator shall submit to the Committees
on Appropriations a report containing a description of such
violation and the corrective action taken by the Agency:
Provided further, That in awarding grants for natural fam-
ily planning under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 no applicant shall be discriminated against be-
cause of such applicant’s religious or conscientious commit-
ment to offer only natural family planning; and, addition-
ally, all such applicants shall comply with the requirements
of the previous proviso: Provided further, That for purposes
of this or any other Act authorizing or appropriating funds
for foreign operations, export financing, and related pro-
grams, the term ‘‘motivate’’, as it relates to family planning
assistance, shall not be construed to prohibit the provision,
consistent with local law, of information or counseling
about all pregnancy options: Provided further, That infor-
mation provided about the use of condoms as part of
projects or activities that are funded from amounts appro-
priated by this Act shall be medically accurate and shall