I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1145
To provide additional appropriations for the fiscal year 2003 for the Peace 
Corps. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 6, 2003
Ms. MILLENDER-MCDONALD (for herself, Mr. WEXLER, Ms. LOFGREN, Ms. 
WATSON, Ms. NORTON, Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania, Ms. KAPTUR, Ms. 
WOOLSEY, Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, Mr. HONDA, Mr. WALSH, Mr. RANGEL, 
Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. FROST, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. KILDEE, Mr. WAX-
MAN, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. WATT, Mr. OWENS, Mr. HOUGHTON, Mr. 
JEFFERSON, Mr. PAYNE, and Mr. BROWN of Ohio) introduced the fol-
lowing bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Rela-
tions 
A BILL 
To provide additional appropriations for the fiscal year 2003 
for the Peace Corps.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Peace Corps HIV/
AIDS Training Enhancement Appropriations Act for Fis-
cal Year 2003’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds as follows: 
(1) AIDS is so pervasive that it is destroying 
the very fiber of what constitutes civil society in 
many regions of the world: individuals, families, and 
communities; economic and political institutions; 
military and police forces are all affected. 
(2) AIDS has claimed 22,000,000 lives—more 
than all the soldiers killed in major wars of the 20th 
century—and 
currently 
infects 
more 
than 
36,000,000 individuals worldwide. 
(3) Infant mortality due to AIDS is increasing 
throughout the world and AIDS-related mortality 
will eliminate the gains made in child survival over 
the past 20 years. More than 13,000,000 children 
worldwide (95 percent of whom live in Africa) have 
lost either their mothers or both parents to AIDS. 
(4) Life expectancy in ten countries in Africa 
has dropped by over 20 years due to AIDS—wiping 
out the gains of 30 years of development. 
(5) Teachers and health care workers are the 
most heavily HIV/AIDS affected sectors of public 
employment. In many African nations it is estimated 
that between 25 and 50 percent of all health care 
workers may be dead from AIDS by 2005.
(6) Botswanan President Festus Mogae de-
clared that Botswana, once an economically success-
ful southern African nation, is now threatened with 
extinction. 
(7) Mobilizing resources and human capacity is 
essential in the prevention of new infections and 
treatment to those already infected with HIV/AIDS. 
(8) 7,300 Peace Corps volunteers work in 76 
countries worldwide including 25 countries in Africa. 
1,431 of these Peace Corps members are health vol-
unteers who serve in Africa, the Eastern Mediterra-
nean, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the 
Pacific. 
(9) Peace Corps health volunteers work in rural 
and urban settings in a variety of health activities 
including teaching HIV/AIDS education and preven-
tion methodologies to local people. 
(10) Peace Corps volunteers work to improve 
the health of women, men and children, adolescents, 
and families by promoting health information and by 
improving the skills of African professionals, local 
organizations, and local people in HIV/AIDS preven-
tion and treatment. 
(11) The Peace Corps would like to increase its 
capacity in HIV/AIDS education and prevention ac-
tivities—especially in the area of training HIV/AIDS 
trainers—by increasing its health volunteer corps. 
The Peace Corps believes that with increased capac-
ity, it can significantly impact communities to take 
more responsibility for their own health care. But it 
cannot do so without further funding. 
SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR FISCAL YEAR 
2003. 
(a) APPROPRIATION.—In addition to such sums as 
are otherwise appropriated to carry out the provisions of 
the Peace Corps Act for the fiscal year 2003, there are 
appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year 2003 to carry 
out the provisions of such Act which shall be available only 
for additional health volunteers working with HIV/AIDS 
treatment and prevention methodologies, particularly the 
training of local HIV/AIDS trainers. 
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, sums appropriated under sub-
section (a) shall remain available until expended.
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