Global CARE Act
Latest action · Jan 30, 2003 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.
- IntroducedJan 30, 2003
- 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 5
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Feb 6, 2003 to Mar 18, 2003.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-LA | Mary L. Landrieu | Feb 6, 2003 | |
| D-MI | Carl Levin | Feb 10, 2003 | |
| D-CT | Joseph I. Lieberman | Feb 10, 2003 | |
| D-WA | Patty Murray | Feb 10, 2003 | |
| D-NM | Jeff Bingaman | Mar 18, 2003 |
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Jan 30, 2003Introduced in Senate
- Jan 30, 2003Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
- Jan 30, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1814-1816)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Agriculture and Food
- AIDS (Disease)
- 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
- Development credit institutions
- Drug industry
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employee training
- Epidemics
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal aid to 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
- Housing and Community Development
- Human immunodeficiency viruses
- International Affairs
- International cooperation
- Labor and Employment
- Legislation
- Malaria
- Medical education
- Medical research
- Medical supplies
- Medical tests
- Military medicine
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Nutrition
- Orphans
- Pharmaceutical research
- Physicians
- Preventive medicine
- Product safety
- Public health administration
- Public health personnel
- Public-private partnerships
- Recruiting of employees
- Research and development
- Research centers
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Sex crimes
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Strategic planning
- Sustainable development
- Tuberculosis
- United Nations
- Vaccines
- Victims of crimes
- Virus diseases
- Women
- Women's health
- World health
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.