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knowledge and experience in the fields of public health, epide-
miology, health care (including delivery systems), and develop-
ment.
(2) UNITED STATES REPRESENTATION.—
(A) IN GENERAL.—Upon the effective date of this para-
graph, there shall be a United States member of the Board
of Trustees, who shall be appointed by the President, by
and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who
shall have the qualifications described in paragraph (1).
(B) EFFECTIVE AND TERMINATION DATES.—
(i) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This paragraph shall take
effect upon the date the Secretary of the Treasury
certifies to Congress that an agreement establishing
the Trust Fund and providing for a United States
member of the Board of Trustees is in effect.
(ii) TERMINATION DATE.—The position established
by subparagraph (A) is abolished upon the date of
termination of the Trust Fund.
SEC. 122. GRANT AUTHORITIES.
(a) PROGRAM OBJECTIVES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—In carrying out the purpose of section
121(b), the Trust Fund, acting through the Board of Trustees,
should provide only grants, including grants for technical assist-
ance to support measures to build local capacity in national
and local government, civil society, and the private sector to
lead and implement effective and affordable HIV/AIDS preven-
tion, education, treatment and care services, and research and
development activities, including access to affordable drugs.
(2) ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Among the activities the Trust
Fund should provide grants for should be—
(A) programs to promote the best practices in preven-
tion, including health education messages that emphasize
risk avoidance such as abstinence;
(B) measures to ensure a safe blood supply;
(C) voluntary HIV/AIDS testing and counseling;
(D) measures to stop mother-to-child transmission of
HIV/AIDS, including through diagnosis of pregnant women,
access to cost-effective treatment and counseling, and
access to infant formula or other alternatives for infant
feeding;
(E) programs to provide for the support and education
of AIDS orphans and the families, communities, and
institutions most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic;
(F) measures for the deterrence of gender-based
violence and the provision of post-exposure prophylaxis
to victims of rape and sexual assault; and
(G) incentives to promote affordable access to treat-
ments against AIDS and related infections.
(3) IMPLEMENTATION OF PROGRAM OBJECTIVES.—In carrying
out the objectives of paragraph (1), the Trust Fund should
coordinate its activities with governments, civil society, non-
governmental organizations, the Joint United Nations Program
on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the International Partnership Against
AIDS in Africa, other international organizations, the private
sector, and donor agencies working to combat the HIV/AIDS
crisis.
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(b) PRIORITY.—In providing grants under this section, the Trust
Fund should give priority to countries that have the highest HIV/
AIDS prevalence rate or are at risk of having a high HIV/AIDS
prevalence rate.
(c) ELIGIBLE GRANT RECIPIENTS.—Governments and nongovern-
mental organizations should be eligible to receive grants under
this section.
(d) PROHIBITION.—The Trust Fund should not make grants
for the purpose of project development associated with bilateral
or multilateral bank loans.
SEC. 123. ADMINISTRATION.
(a) APPOINTMENT
OF
AN
ADMINISTRATOR.—The Board of
Trustees, in consultation with the appropriate officials of the Bank,
should appoint an Administrator who should be responsible for
managing the day-to-day operations of the Trust Fund.
(b) AUTHORITY TO SOLICIT AND ACCEPT CONTRIBUTIONS.—The
Trust Fund should be authorized to solicit and accept contributions
from governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental entities
of all kinds.
(c) ACCOUNTABILITY OF FUNDS AND CRITERIA FOR PROGRAMS.—
As part of the negotiations described in section 121(a), the Secretary
of the Treasury shall, consistent with subsection (d)—
(1) take such actions as are necessary to ensure that the
Bank or the Association will have in effect adequate procedures
and standards to account for and monitor the use of funds
contributed to the Trust Fund, including the cost of admin-
istering the Trust Fund; and
(2) seek agreement on the criteria that should be used
to determine the programs and activities that should be assisted
by the Trust Fund.
(d) SELECTION OF PROJECTS AND RECIPIENTS.—The Board of
Trustees should establish—
(1) criteria for the selection of projects to receive support
from the Trust Fund;
(2) standards and criteria regarding qualifications of recipi-
ents of such support;
(3) such rules and procedures as may be necessary for
cost-effective management of the Trust Fund; and
(4) such rules and procedures as may be necessary to
ensure transparency and accountability in the grant-making
process.
(e) TRANSPARENCY
OF
OPERATIONS.—The Board of Trustees
should ensure full and prompt public disclosure of the proposed
objectives, financial organization, and operations of the Trust Fund.
SEC. 124. ADVISORY BOARD.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There should be an Advisory Board to the
Trust Fund.
(b) APPOINTMENTS.—The members of the Advisory Board should
be drawn from—
(1) a broad range of individuals with experience and leader-
ship in the fields of development, health care (especially HIV/
AIDS), epidemiology, medicine, biomedical research, and social
sciences; and
(2) representatives of relevant United Nations agencies
and nongovernmental organizations with on-the-ground experi-
ence in affected countries.
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(c) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Advisory Board should provide
advice and guidance to the Board of Trustees on the development
and implementation of programs and projects to be assisted by
the Trust Fund and on leveraging donations to the Trust Fund.
(d) PROHIBITION ON PAYMENT OF COMPENSATION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except for travel expenses (including per
diem in lieu of subsistence), no member of the Advisory Board
should receive compensation for services performed as a
member of the Board.
(2) UNITED STATES REPRESENTATIVE.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of law (including an international agreement),
a representative of the United States on the Advisory Board
may not accept compensation for services performed as a
member of the Board, except that such representative may
accept travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence,
while away from the representative’s home or regular place
of business in the performance of services for the Board.
CHAPTER 2—REPORTS
SEC. 131. REPORTS TO CONGRESS.
(a) ANNUAL REPORTS BY TREASURY SECRETARY.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for the
duration of the Trust Fund, the Secretary of the Treasury
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report
on the Trust Fund.
(2) REPORT ELEMENTS.—The report shall include a descrip-
tion of—
(A) the goals of the Trust Fund;
(B) the programs, projects, and activities, including
any vaccination approaches, supported by the Trust Fund;
(C) private and governmental contributions to the
Trust Fund; and
(D) the criteria that have been established, acceptable
to the Secretary of the Treasury and the Administrator
of the United States Agency for International Development,
that would be used to determine the programs and activi-
ties that should be assisted by the Trust Fund.
(b) GAO REPORT ON TRUST FUND EFFECTIVENESS.—Not later
than 2 years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the appro-
priate committees of the Congress a report evaluating the effective-
ness of the Trust Fund, including—
(1) the effectiveness of the programs, projects, and activities
described in subsection (a)(2)(B) in reducing the worldwide
spread of AIDS; and
(2) an assessment of the merits of continued United States
financial contributions to the Trust Fund.
(c) APPROPRIATE COMMITTEES DEFINED.—In subsection (a), the
term ‘‘appropriate committees’’ means the Committee on Foreign
Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and
the Committee on International Relations, the Committee on
Banking and Financial Services, and the Committee on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives.
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CHAPTER 3—UNITED STATES FINANCIAL
PARTICIPATION
SEC. 141. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—In addition to any other funds authorized
to be appropriated for multilateral or bilateral programs related
to HIV/AIDS or economic development, there is authorized to be
appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury $150,000,000 for
each of the fiscal years 2001 and 2002 for payment to the Trust
Fund.
(b) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Of the amounts authorized to be
appropriated by subsection (a) for the fiscal years 2001 and 2002,
$50,000,000 are authorized to be available each such fiscal year
only for programs that benefit orphans.
SEC. 142. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Prior to the initial obligation or expenditure
of funds appropriated pursuant to section 141, the Secretary of
the Treasury shall certify that adequate procedures and standards
have been established to ensure accountability for and monitoring
of the use of funds contributed to the Trust Fund, including the
cost of administering the Trust Fund.
(b) TRANSMITTAL OF CERTIFICATION.—The certification required
by subsection (a), and the bases for that certification, shall be
submitted by the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress.
TITLE II—INTERNATIONAL
TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL
SEC. 201. SHORT TITLE.
This title may be cited as the ‘‘International Tuberculosis Con-
trol Act of 2000’’.
SEC. 202. FINDINGS.
Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Since the development of antibiotics in the 1950s, tuber-
culosis has been largely controlled in the United States and
the Western World.
(2) Due to societal factors, including growing urban decay,
inadequate health care systems, persistent poverty, over-
crowding, and malnutrition, as well as medical factors,
including the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the emergence of multi-
drug resistant strains of tuberculosis, tuberculosis has again
become a leading and growing cause of adult deaths in the
developing world.
(3) According to the World Health Organization—
(A) in 1998, about 1,860,000 people worldwide died
of tuberculosis-related illnesses;
(B) one-third of the world’s total population is infected
with tuberculosis; and
(C) tuberculosis is the world’s leading killer of women
between 15 and 44 years old and is a leading cause of
children becoming orphans.
(4) Because of the ease of transmission of tuberculosis,
its international persistence and growth pose a direct public