IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. CON. RES. 247 
Expressing support for advancing vital United States interests through in-
creased engagement in health programs that alleviate disease and pov-
erty, and reduce premature death in developing nations, especially 
through programs that combat high levels of infectious disease, improve 
children’s and women’s health, decrease malnutrition, reduce unintended 
pregnancies, fight the spread of HIV/AIDS, encourage healthy behaviors, 
and strengthen health care capacity. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 6, 2007 
Mr. PAYNE
(for himself, Mr. KIRK, Mr. JACKSON
of Illinois, Mr. 
MCDERMOTT, Ms. WOOLSEY, Ms. MCCOLLUM of Minnesota, Mr. HONDA, 
Ms. LEE, Ms. CLARKE, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of 
Texas, Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. AL GREEN of Texas, Mr. 
HASTINGS of Florida, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. WATT, and Mr. 
RUSH) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 
Expressing support for advancing vital United States inter-
ests through increased engagement in health programs 
that alleviate disease and poverty, and reduce premature 
death in developing nations, especially through programs 
that combat high levels of infectious disease, improve 
children’s and women’s health, decrease malnutrition, re-
duce unintended pregnancies, fight the spread of HIV/ 
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AIDS, encourage healthy behaviors, and strengthen 
health care capacity. 
Whereas health is integral to social and economic develop-
ment and to building stable, independent, and productive 
societies; 
Whereas unnecessarily high levels of preventable death and 
disability persist in developing nations, including over 
10,000,000 child deaths every year—30,000 each day— 
a majority of which are from easily preventable or treat-
able causes, including pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, mal-
nutrition, measles, and complications immediately fol-
lowing birth; 40,000,000 people infected with HIV and 
3,000,000 AIDS deaths per year; 530,000 deaths of 
women every year from complications related to preg-
nancy and childbirth and millions of cases of trauma and 
disability caused by obstetric fistula and other prevent-
able injuries; an unmet need for family planning among 
over 100,000,000 married women; 1,000,000 deaths an-
nually from malaria, most of which are among young 
children and in sub-Saharan Africa; an expanding threat 
from tuberculosis, which is a principal cause of death 
among those infected with HIV and is evolving into forms 
increasingly resistant to all known drugs; the increasing 
impact of preventable, non-communicable disease, espe-
cially those deriving from tobacco use, alcohol and drug 
abuse, and other risky lifestyle behaviors; and the poten-
tial of new disease threats, such as avian influenza, which 
demand new levels of preparedness and health capacity; 
Whereas the short- and long-term economic, military, and po-
litical security of countries is directly threatened by in-
creased mortality and morbidity resulting from infectious 
diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, poor 
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