infant deaths and 142,000 maternal deaths annu-
ally. 
(13) Linking family planning programs with 
HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment pro-
grams helps to meet the multiple health needs of 
couples while effectively using scarce financial and 
human resources. 
(14) For HIV-positive women, family planning 
is the most efficacious and cost-effective intervention 
to prevent unintended pregnancies, decrease the risk 
of maternal death, and avoid the transmission of 
HIV from mother-to-child, premature birth, low 
birth weight, or infant death. 
(15) Rapid population growth over-stresses vital 
resources, such as water, agricultural land, forests, 
and wildlife, contributing to extreme poverty, infec-
tious disease, limited access to education, environ-
mental destruction, food insecurity, and resultant 
malnutrition. 
(16) Malnutrition in children is a contributing 
factor to more than one-half of all child mortality, 
and malnutrition in mothers account for a substan-
tial proportion of neonatal mortality. 
(17) United States-funded family planning pro-
grams have been successfully linked with the con-
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servation of natural resources to ease growing popu-
lation pressures, improve food security, and keep 
families healthy and communities economically via-
ble. 
(18) Between 2005 and 2050, if family plan-
ning needs remain unmet, the population is expected 
to grow by more than 300 percent in the developing 
countries of Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Burundi, 
Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the 
Republic of the Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, 
Niger, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, and 
Uganda. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that it should be a United 
States policy objective to— 
(1) partner with developing countries to expand 
access to voluntary family planning programs and 
the supply of modern contraceptives in order to— 
(A) meet growing demand to allow couples 
to achieve their desired family size; 
(B) reduce maternal and child mortality; 
(C) reduce unintended pregnancies and re-
sulting abortions; 
(D) reduce the incidence of HIV trans-
mission from mother-to-child and extend the 
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lives of HIV-positive women thus reducing the 
number of orphaned children; 
(E) conserve vital natural resources, in-
cluding water, agricultural land, and forested 
lands; 
(F) improve food security; and 
(G) enhance opportunities for lasting social 
and economic development; and 
(2) strengthen public heath initiatives world-
wide by provide training, research, and services for 
a wide variety of modern contraceptives and family 
planning methods that are designed and imple-
mented based on— 
(A) community participation; 
(B) the needs and values of beneficiaries; 
and 
(C) adherence to the principles of vol-
untary participation and informed consent. 
SEC. 4. ASSISTANCE TO IMPROVE VOLUNTARY FAMILY 
PLANNING 
PROGRAMS 
IN 
DEVELOPING 
COUNTRIES. 
(a) AMENDMENTS.—Section 104(b) of the Foreign 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(b)) is amend-
ed— 
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