Microbicide Development Act

Bill: 110-hr-1420
Sponsor: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Clinical trials
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Developing countries
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Human behavior
Human immunodeficiency viruses
International Affairs
Medical research
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Product development
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social science research
Strategic planning
Women
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Microbicide Development Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Office of AIDS Research to: (1) expedite the implementation of the federal strategic plan for the conduct and support of microbicide research and development; and (2) expand, intensify, and coordinate all activities with respect to research and development of microbicides to prevent the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. 

Requires the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to: (1) establish within the Division of AIDS an organizational branch to carry out microbicide research and development; and (2) assign priority to ensuring adequate funding and support for the Microbicide Trials Network and other programs for supporting microbicides clinical trials. 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fully implement the CDC's microbicide agenda to support microbicide research and development. 
Requires the President to direct the head of the Office of HIV/AIDS of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop and implement a program to support the development of microbicides products for the prevention of the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other diseases and facilitate wide-scale availability of such products.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E545-546)
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House