United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2002
Latest action · Nov 20, 2002 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 20, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Requires the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to develop a comprehensive plan to empower women to protect themselves against the spread of HIV/AIDS.
Establishes within the Department of State a presidentially appointed Coordinator of United States Government Activities to Combat HIV/AIDS Globally.
Authorizes the United States to participate in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and increases financial assistance for vaccine contributions.
Authorizes the President to provide assistance and coordination between international organizations for the global prevention, treatment, monitoring, and control of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Requires the President to establish a program to demonstrate the feasibility of facilitating services of American health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the world severely affected by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
Requires the President, acting through the Administrator of USAID, to establish a program of assistance that would demonstrate the feasibility of providing care and treatment to orphans, other children, and young people affected by HIV/AIDS in foreign countries.
Sets forth principles for U.S. firms operating in countries affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Cosponsors 3
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 20, 2002.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Original | Nov 20, 2002 |
| D-DE | Joseph R. Biden Jr. | Original | Nov 20, 2002 |
| R-TN | William H. Frist | Original | Nov 20, 2002 |
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Foreign Relations Committee | Referred Nov 20, 2002 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 20, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Nov 20, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Research
What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.
Printed hearings 1
Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.
| Number | Hearing | Committee | Held |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Hrg. 107-651 | EFFECTIVE IMMIGRATION CONTROLS TO DETER TERRORISM80 pages | Judiciary Committee | Oct 17, 2001 |
Related bills 1
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HR 5761 | United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2002 | Identical bill | Nov 19, 2002 |
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase assistance for foreign countries seriously affected by HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2002
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: International Affairs.
- Access to health care
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Africa (Sub-Saharan)
- Agriculture and Food
- AIDS (Disease)
- Ambassadors
- American economic assistance
- American investments
- American technical assistance
- Americans employed in foreign countries
- Authorization
- Blood banks
- Business and social problems
- Business ethics
- Caregivers
- Case management
- Child health
- Child nutrition
- Church and social problems
- Citizen participation
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinical trials
- Clinics
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Communicable diseases
- Communication in medicine
- Community health services
- Community organization
- Condoms
- Congress
- Congress and foreign policy
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Contraceptives
- Corporate accountability
- Credit
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Crimes against women
- Debt agreements
- Debt relief
- Department of State
- Developing countries
- Disciplining of employees
- Discrimination in employment
- Displaced persons
- Drug therapy
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Employee rights
- Employee training
- Environmental degradation
- Environmental Protection
- Epidemics
- Epidemiology
- Executive reorganization
- Exports
- Families
- Federal aid to medical education
- Federal employees
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government liability (International law)
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government spending
- Government trust funds
- Guardian and ward
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health services administration
- Health surveys
- Higher education
- HIV-positive persons
- Hospices (Terminal care)
- Human behavior
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- Human rights
- Immigration
- Immune system
- Infant formulas
- Infants
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- International Affairs
- International agencies
- International cooperation
- International monetary system
- International relief
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legal services
- Malaria
- Maternal health services
- Medical economics
- Medical education
- Medical laboratories
- Medical personnel
- Medical records
- Medical research
- Medical statistics
- Medical technology
- Medical tests
- Men
- Mortality
- Mothers
- Multilateral development banks
- Negotiations
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Nurses
- Nutrition
- Orphans
- Pain
- Personnel records
- Pharmaceutical research
- Physicians
- Poverty
- President and foreign policy
- Presidential appointments
- Preventive medicine
- Promotions
- Public health personnel
- Public Lands and Natural Resources
- Public-private partnerships
- Quality control
- Rape victim services
- Rating of employees
- Recruiting of employees
- Refugee children
- Religion
- Reprogramming of appropriated funds
- Right of privacy
- Scholarships
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sex crimes
- Sex education
- Sexual abstinence
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social Welfare
- State-sponsored terrorism
- Student loan funds
- Supervisors
- Sustainable development
- Terrorism
- Tuberculosis
- Tuberculosis research
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- United Nations
- United Nations economic assistance
- User charges
- Vaccines
- Women
- Women's education
- Women's health
- Women's rights
- World health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Nov 20, 2002Introduced in Senate
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
