deficiency syndrome (AIDS). The vast majority of
these women and children live in developing coun-
tries.
(2) The maternal and child mortality rate in
many developing countries will increase dramatically
until HIV/AIDS prevention and control efforts are
successful, as will the number of orphans with HIV/
AIDS.
(3) The most effective efforts to respond to
HIV/AIDS are based at the community level and in-
volve nongovernmental organizations as well as gov-
ernment agencies.
(4) The United States Agency for International
Development should expand its assistance to devel-
oping countries for community-based prevention,
care, and control programs and activities relating to
HIV/AIDS, and should participate in coordinated ef-
forts with other donors.
(5) Coordination of efforts of bilateral, multilat-
eral, and nongovernmental agencies and organiza-
tions is essential.
(b) INTERNATIONAL AIDS PREVENTION AND CON-
TROL FUND.—Section 104(c) of the Foreign Assistance
Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(c); relating to development
assistance for health related activities) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(4)(A) In carrying out this subsection, the President
shall promote, encourage, and undertake community-based
prevention, care, and control programs and activities relat-
ing to the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and ac-
quired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in developing
countries, including research as to the effectiveness of
such programs and activities.
‘‘(B) There are authorized to be appropriated
$125,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and $145,000,000 for
fiscal year 1997 for use in carrying out this paragraph,
which shall be in addition to amounts made available
under subsection (g) or otherwise available for such pur-
pose. Amounts appropriated under this subparagraph are
authorized to remain available until expended.
‘‘(C) Appropriations pursuant to subparagraph (B)
may be referred to as the ‘International AIDS Prevention
and Control Fund’.’’.
SEC. 6. INTERNATIONAL BASIC EDUCATION.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:
(1) Primary education, early childhood develop-
ment activities, and programs to achieve literacy, are
essential for increasing the productive capacity of
people and their ability to earn income.
(2) More than 100,000,000 children, the major-
ity of them girls, are not enrolled in primary school.
(3) The Plan of Action adopted by the World
Summit for Children calls for basic education for all
children and for completion of primary education by
at least 80 percent of all children.
(4) United States assistance for basic education
in developing countries has accounted for less than
2 percent of all United States foreign assistance in
recent years.
(b) INTERNATIONAL BASIC EDUCATION.—Section
105 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2151c; relating to development assistance for education
and human resource development) is amended by adding
at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(c) BASIC EDUCATION.—(1) Of the aggregate of the
amounts made available to carry out this section, chapter
10 of this part, and chapter 4 of part II and for the Multi-
lateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines, not less
than $165,000,000 for fiscal year 1996 and not less than
$200,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 shall be available only
for programs in support of basic education, including early
childhood education, primary education, teacher training,
and other necessary activities in support of early childhood
and primary education, and literacy training for adults.
‘‘(2) The President shall include in the annual budget
submitted to the Congress a description of the measured
or estimated impact on primary school enrollment, lit-
eracy, and educational attainment of each project or pro-
gram carried out under this subsection.’’.
SEC. 7. INTERNATIONAL FAMILY PLANNING AND CHILD
SPACING.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:
(1) Universal access to voluntary family plan-
ning could save the lives of several million children
each year and could significantly improve the health
of children throughout the developing world by re-
ducing prematurity and low birthweight and allowing
longer breastfeeding.
(2) The risk of maternal death or illness in the
developing world is highest for women who bear chil-
dren when they are under the age of 18 or over the
age of 35, for pregnancies spaced less than 2 years
apart, and for women who already have 4 or more
children. Universal access to voluntary family plan-
ning could prevent up to one-third of the 500,000
maternal deaths annually.
(3) The inability of couples to plan births de-
creases the quality of women’s lives and undermines
their opportunities for education, for earning in-
come, for improving the care of children, and for
community activities and personal development.
(4) Rapid world population growth, combined
with unsustainable patterns of natural resource con-
sumption, has become an urgent economic, social,
and environmental problem.
(5) The Plan of Action adopted at the 1990
World Summit for Children calls for voluntary fam-
ily planning services and education to be made avail-
able to all couples to empower them to prevent un-
wanted pregnancies which are ‘‘too many and too
close’’ and to women who are ‘‘too young or too
old’’.
(6) Efforts to reduce child death rates and to
lower birthrates are mutually reinforcing because
closely-spaced pregnancies contribute in important
ways to high child mortality and parents need assur-
ances that their children will survive.
(b) AUTHORIZATIONS OF APPROPRIATIONS.—In ad-
dition to any other amounts made available for such pur-
poses, there are authorized to be appropriated to the
President for United States population assistance pro-
grams and activities under part I of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 not less than $525,000,000 for fiscal
year 1996 and not less than $575,000,000 for fiscal year
1997.
SEC. 8. REFUGEES.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the following:
(1) The number of refugees worldwide has
grown to 20,000,000 in 1995. In addition, there are
estimated to be more than 25,000,000 internally dis-
placed persons. More than half of these refugees and
internally displaced persons are children.
(2) The dramatic growth in the number of refu-
gees and displaced persons has resulted in serious
reductions in legal assistance and protection, health,
nutrition, and basic education services available to
them.
(3) Refugee children are particularly vulnerable
in first asylum camps from Africa to Southeast Asia
where they languish without the comfort of a parent
or adult guardian.
(b) FUNDING
FOR
REFUGEE
ASSISTANCE
PRO-
GRAMS.—It is the sense of the Congress that—
(1) not less than $750,000,000 for fiscal year
1996 and $780,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 should
be appropriated for the ‘‘Migration and Refugee As-
sistance’’ 
account, 
of 
which 
not 
less 
than
$450,000,000 
for 
fiscal 
year 
1996 
and
$480,000,000 for fiscal year 1997 should be avail-
able only for programs of refugee assistance overseas
(in addition to the amounts available for programs
for refugees from the former Soviet Union, Eastern
Europe, and elsewhere who resettle in Israel); and
(2) not less than $100,000,000 for each of the
fiscal years 1996 and 1997 should be appropriated
for the ‘‘United States Emergency Refugee and Mi-
gration Assistance Fund’’ account.
SEC. 9. EFFORTS BY OTHER COUNTRIES.
The President shall call upon the governments of
other countries to provide their share of the resources re-
quired to achieve the World Summit for Children goals
by the year 2000, specifically through giving highest prior-
ity to increasing the proportion of public expenditures and
foreign assistance devoted to priority human needs areas
outlined in the Declaration and Plan of Action of the
World Summit for Children.
SEC. 10. ANNUAL REPORT.
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.—In order that the
Congress and the people of the United States may be fully
informed of efforts undertaken by the United States Gov-
ernment to fulfill agreements signed by the United States
at the World Summit for Children, the President shall re-
port annually to the Congress on United States contribu-
tions to the achievement of the goals of the World Summit
for Children. Each such report should include—
(1) a discussion of efforts by the United States
to achieve those goals both within the United States
and in other countries; and
(2) a comparative analysis of current and past
funding levels and planned funding levels for the
next 2 fiscal years.
(b) SUBMISSION DATE.—The reports required by this
section shall be submitted to the Congress no later than
February 1 of each year.
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