Global CARE Act
Latest action · Feb 12, 2002 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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.
- IntroducedFeb 12, 2002
- Passed SenateNot reached
- Passed HouseNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Establishes the International HIV/AIDS Prevention and Capacity Development Initiative to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and opportunistic infections through specified measures.
Establishes the International AIDS Care and Treatment Access Initiative.
Authorizes appropriations to the following Federal agencies for such purposes: (1) the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; (2) the Health Resources and Services Administration; (3) the National Institutes of Health; (4) the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; (5) the Food and Drug Administration; (6) the United States Agency for International Development; and (7) the Departments of Defense, Agriculture, Labor, and Commerce, including the Global Health Fund. States that the United States should make contributions to such Fund consistent with the general principles outlined in the Global AIDS and Tuberculosis Relief Act of 2000.
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a (HIV/AIDS) Global Physician Corps using international assignment of physicians to provide care, train host country physicians, and establish or adapt clinical protocols for prevention and treatment.
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorizes funds for injection safety.
AIDS Orphans Relief Act of 2002 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to provide assistance to communities affected by AIDS, including microcredit programs.
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create a pilot program concerning the use of antiretroviral drugs in resource-poor settings.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Committees 1
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| Senate | Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee | Referred Feb 13, 2002 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 12, 2002Introduced in Senate
- Feb 12, 2002Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S664-665)
- Feb 12, 2002Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
In the Congressional Record 1
Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.
| Where | In the Record | Members | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senate | Debate and remarks S664 | Richard J. Durbin D-IL | Feb 12, 2002 |
Titles 3
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- A bill to address the international HIV/AIDS pandemic.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Global Coordination of HIV/AIDS Response Act
- Global CARE Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Agriculture and Food
- AIDS (Disease)
- American economic assistance
- American technical assistance
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Blood banks
- Child health
- Commerce
- Communicable diseases
- Communication in medicine
- Condoms
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Continuum of care
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Drug industry
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employee training
- Epidemics
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal aid to medical research
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Food relief
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government procurement
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health information systems
- Health planning
- Higher education
- HIV-positive persons
- Housing and Community Development
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Labor and Employment
- Legislation
- Malaria
- Medical education
- Medical supplies
- Medical tests
- Military medicine
- Multilateral development banks
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Nutrition
- Orphans
- Pharmaceutical research
- Physicians
- Poor
- Poor women
- Preventive medicine
- Product safety
- Public health administration
- Public health personnel
- Public-private partnerships
- Rape victim services
- Recruiting of employees
- Research and development
- Research centers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sex crimes
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Social Welfare
- Strategic planning
- Sustainable development
- Tuberculosis
- United Nations
- Vaccines
- Victims of crimes
- Virus diseases
- Women
- Women's health
- World health
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Feb 12, 2002Introduced in Senate
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