SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘AIDS Marshall Plan
Fund for Africa Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) In a June 1999 lecture entitled ‘‘The Global
Challenges of AIDS’’, United Nations Secretary
General Kofi Annan stated that ‘‘[n]o company and
no government can take on the challenge of AIDS
alone [. . . and therefore] what is needed is a new
approach to public health—combining all available
resources, public and private, local and global’’.
(2) The 1999 annual report by the United Na-
tions Children’s Fund (UNICEF) states that
14,000,000 individuals worldwide have died as a re-
sult of HIV/AIDS and 11,000,000 of such individ-
uals were from African countries.
(3) The World Health Organization announced
that HIV/AIDS is now the ‘‘world’s most deadly in-
fectious disease’’, making it the fourth leading cause
of death in the world, and the United Nations states
that in sub-Saharan Africa, HIV/AIDS is the ‘‘worst
infectious disease catastrophe since the bubonic
plague’’.
(4) The World Health Organization reports
that 33,400,000 individuals throughout the world
are currently infected with HIV and 22,500,000 of
such individuals live in sub-Saharan Africa.
(5) The Joint United Nations Programme on
HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) has declared that every day
more than 16,000 individuals worldwide become in-
fected with HIV.
(6) 3,600,000 South Africans are HIV-positive,
with 1,500 new infections daily, and the virus is ex-
pected to infect 20 percent of that country’s work-
force by 2000.
(7) In the Republic of Zimbabwe, 1 out of every
5 adults is infected with HIV/AIDS, and an esti-
mated 1,400 people die every week from AIDS.
(8) A 1999 Bureau of the Census report states
that the average life expectancy in the Republic of
Botswana, the Republic of Zimbabwe, the Kingdom
of Swaziland, the Republic of Malawi, and the Re-
public of Zambia has decreased from approximately
age 65 to approximately age 40—the lowest life ex-
pectancy in the world—due to high mortality rates
from HIV/AIDS.
(9) According to a 1997 UNAIDS study, be-
tween one-fifth to one-half of all pregnant women in
the Republic of Zimbabwe are infected with HIV/
AIDS and at least one-third of these pregnant
women are likely to pass the infection on to their
baby.
(10) 1,800 babies are born HIV-positive in Af-
rica every day.
(11) In sub-Saharan Africa, 960,000 children
are living with HIV/AIDS.
(12) In the coming decades, HIV/AIDS will
double infant mortality in many sub-Saharan Afri-
can countries and will triple child mortality rates.
(13) It is estimated that by 2010, more than
40,000,000 African children will become orphans as
a result of HIV/AIDS and 95 percent of these chil-
dren will be located in sub-Saharan Africa.
(14) The 1999 annual report by the United Na-
tions Children’s Fund (UNICEF) states that ‘‘[t]he
number or orphans, particularly in Africa, con-
stitutes nothing less than an emergency, requiring
an emergency response’’ and that ‘‘finding the re-
sources needed to help stabilize the crisis and pro-
tect children is a priority that requires urgent action
from the international community’’.
(15) The South African Press Agency has re-
ported that an estimated 7 out of every 10 teachers
in the Kingdom of Swaziland are HIV-positive.
(16) A World Bank study found that in Kigali,
Rwanda, 34 percent of individuals with a postsec-
ondary education are infected with HIV.
(17) The Southern Africa AIDS Information
Dissemination Service estimates that over the next
20 years AIDS will reduce by one-fourth the value
of the economies of sub-Saharan African countries.
(18) Most sub-Saharan African countries have
a high rate of HIV infection among members of
their militaries, including an estimated 80 percent
rate in the Republic of Zimbabwe.
SEC. 3. ASSISTANCE FOR HIV/AIDS RESEARCH, PREVEN-
TION, AND TREATMENT ACTIVITIES IN AFRI-
CA.
Chapter 1 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act
of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 et seq.) is amended by inserting
after section 104 the following:
‘‘SEC. 104A. ASSISTANCE FOR HIV/AIDS RESEARCH, PRE-
VENTION, AND TREATMENT ACTIVITIES IN
AFRICA.
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF CORPORATION.—There is
hereby established the AIDS Marshall Plan Fund for Afri-
ca Corporation or the AMPFA Corporation (hereinafter
in this section referred to as the ‘Corporation’), which
shall be an independent agency of the United States.
‘‘(b) ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.—The Corporation shall,
in consultation with the Director of the Office of National
AIDS Policy, the Overseas Private Investment Corpora-
tion, and the heads of other Federal agencies involved in
HIV/AIDS activities in Africa, establish and carry out a
program to provide assistance for HIV/AIDS research,
prevention, and treatment activities in Africa.
‘‘(c) ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT.—
‘‘(1) STRUCTURE OF CORPORATION.—The Cor-
poration shall have a Board of Directors, an Advi-
sory Board of Directors, a President, an Executive
Vice President, and such other officers and staff as
the Board of Directors may determine.
‘‘(2) BOARD OF DIRECTORS.—
‘‘(A) APPOINTMENT.—The President of
the United States shall appoint to the Board of
Directors, by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate, individuals with extensive train-
ing and experience in issues relating to develop-
ment, healthcare (including HIV/AIDS), Africa,
and the administration of grant programs gen-
erally.
‘‘(B) DUTIES.—The Board of Directors
shall establish and carry out the program under
subsection (b).
‘‘(3) ADVISORY BOARD.—
‘‘(A) APPOINTMENT.—The Board of Direc-
tors shall appoint to the Advisory Board of Di-
rectors renowned and distinguished inter-
national leaders who have demonstrated integ-
rity and knowledge of issues relating to develop-
ment, healthcare (including HIV/AIDS), and
Africa.
‘‘(B) DUTIES.—The Advisory Board of Di-
rectors shall, in consultation with other inter-
national experts in related fields (including sci-
entists and doctors), advise and provide guid-
ance for the Board of Directors on the develop-
ment and implementation of the program under
subsection (b).
‘‘(4) PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESI-
DENT.—The President and Executive Vice President
of the Corporation shall be appointed by the Presi-
dent of the United States, by and with the advice
and consent of the Senate, and shall serve at the
pleasure of the President.
‘‘(d) ACTIVITIES UNDER THE PROGRAM.—In car-
rying out the program under subsection (b), the
Corporation—
ability relating to such activities, and which may in-
clude the establishment of appropriate HIV/AIDS
agencies, councils, or related entities for such activi-
ties; and
‘‘(3) matching fund requirements, based on
ability to pay, for a government receiving a grant,
to be determined according to the amount of the
grant plus the total amount of the grants received
by all nongovernmental organizations carrying out
projects for the country involved.
‘‘(f) GENERAL PROVISIONS AND POWERS.—In order
to carry out its duties under this section, the
Corporation—
‘‘(1) shall have the same powers as the Over-
seas Private Investment Corporation (as described in
section 239(d) of this Act); and
‘‘(2) notwithstanding any other provision of
law, is authorized to enter into 1 or more contracts
with the Overseas Private Investment Corporation or
any other appropriate Federal agency for such ad-
ministrative services as the Corporation may require.
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) G–8 COUNTRIES.—The term ‘‘G–8 coun-
tries’’ means the group consisting of France, Ger-
many, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United
States, Canada, Italy, and Russia established to fa-
cilitate economic cooperation among the 8 major
economic powers.
‘‘(2) HIV/AIDS.—The term ‘HIV/AIDS’ means
infection with the human immunodeficiency virus.
Such term includes the acquired immune deficiency
syndrome.
‘‘(h) FUNDING.—
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
FUND.—There is
hereby established in the Treasury of the United
States a fund that shall be known as the ‘‘AIDS
Marshall Plan Fund for Africa’’ (hereinafter in this
section referred to as the ‘‘fund’’), consisting of such
amounts as may be contributed to the fund in ac-
cordance with subsection (d)(2) and such amounts
as may be appropriated to the fund in accordance
with paragraph (3).
‘‘(2) EXPENDITURES FROM FUND.—Amounts in
the fund shall be available only for purposes of car-
rying out the program under subsection (b).
‘‘(3) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized
to be appropriated to the fund $200,000,000
for each of the fiscal years 2001 through 2005.
‘‘(B) ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF AP-
PROPRIATIONS.—In addition to the authoriza-
tion of appropriations under subparagraph (A),
for each of the fiscal years 2002 through 2005,
there are authorized to be appropriated to the
fund an additional amount equal to 25 percent
of the total amount of funds contributed to the
fund in accordance with subsection (d)(2) for
the immediately preceding fiscal year.
‘‘(C) ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPENSES.—Not
more than 8 percent of the total amount appro-
priated under this paragraph for a fiscal year
may used for administrative expenses for car-
rying out the program under subsection (b) for
that fiscal year.’’.
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