African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-805
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Alien labor
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Community health services
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Data banks
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Distance education
Economic assistance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emigration
Environmental Protection
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health facilities
Health information systems
Health planning
Health services administration
Health surveys
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigration
International agencies
International monetary system
Labor and Employment
Malaria
Mathematics
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical supplies
Nongovernmental organizations
Nursing education
Occupational health and safety
Paramedical personnel
Performance measurement
Personnel management
Potable water
President and foreign policy
Preventive medicine
Public-private partnerships
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Rural health
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Student loan funds
Technical assistance
Tuberculosis
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance, including through international or nongovernmental organizations, for programs to improve human health care capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.
 
Directs the President to develop and transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a strategy for coordinating, implementing, and monitoring assistance programs for human health care capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.

action_date: 2007-10-09
text: 
African Health Capacity Investment Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance, including through international or nongovernmental organizations, for programs to improve human health care capacity in sub-Saharan Africa. 
 
Directs the President to develop and transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a strategy for coordinating, implementing, and monitoring assistance programs for human health care capacity in sub-Saharan Africa. 
 
Authorizes FY2008-FY2010 appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-09
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 414.
action_date: 2007-10-09
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden under authority of the order of the Senate of 10/04/2007 with amendments. With written report No. 110-192.
action_date: 2007-10-09
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Reported by Senator Biden under authority of the order of the Senate of 10/04/2007 with amendments. With written report No. 110-192.
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Committee on Foreign Relations. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2820-2823)
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in Senate