United States Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1009
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2003-05-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Advice and consent of the Senate
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Agriculture and Food
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Business ethics
Caregivers
Caribbean area
Child health
Church and social problems
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Community health services
Condoms
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate accountability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Debt relief
Defense budgets
Department of State
Developing countries
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Discrimination in medical care
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Drug therapy
Economic assistance
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Employee health benefits
Employee rights
Employee selection
Environmental Protection
Environmental degradation
Epidemics
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal officials
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability (International law)
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health counseling
Health planning
Health services administration
Health surveys
Higher education
Human behavior
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Immunology and vaccination
Infant formulas
Infants
International agencies
International cooperation
International labor activities
Intravenous drug abuse
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Malaria
Marriage
Maternal health services
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Military civic action
Military training
Mortality
Mothers
Nongovernmental organizations
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Orphans
Peacekeeping forces
Pharmaceutical research
Poverty
President and foreign policy
Presidential appointments
Preventive medicine
Promotions
Prostitution
Public health administration
Public-private partnerships
Quality of products
Rating of employees
Recruiting of employees
Religion
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex crimes
Sex-oriented businesses
Sexual abstinence
Social Welfare
State-sponsored terrorism
Technical assistance
Terminal care
Terrorism
Tuberculosis
United Nations economic assistance
Vaccines
Victims of crimes
Women
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: 
United States Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Act of 2003 - Directs the President to develop a comprehensive, integrated five-year strategy to strengthen the capacity of the United States to be an effective leader of the international campaign against HIV/AIDS and to promote the stabilization or reduction of its global incidence and related morbidity and mortality. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to provide for the establishment within the Department of State of a Coordinator of U.S. Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS. Establishes an Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally Fund.
 
Authorizes the United States to participate in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. Authorizes appropriations for U.S. contributions to the Fund and to specified vaccine initiatives.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to commence efforts with multilateral development institutions to modify the multilateral debt initiative for heavily indebted poor countries presented in the Report of G-7 Finance Ministers on the Cologne Debt Initiative to the Cologne Economic Summit to limit the debt of eligible countries, as specified.
 
 Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance related to HIV/AIDS and assistance to prevent, treat, and eliminate tuberculosis and malaria. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to expand Department of Defense HIV/AIDS prevention educational activities.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that U.S. firms operating in countries affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic are in a position to make significant contributions to the U.S. effort through the voluntary adoption of specified principles and practices.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-08
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 88.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2003-05-07
text: Introduced in Senate