3.0.0 2749 2022-02-03T05:09:49Z 2022-02-03T05:09:49Z Senate S S 2008-03-12 110 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-03-12T17:16:37Z 2008-03-12 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2008-03-12 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000560 Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK] TOM COBURN R OK N B001135 Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC] Richard Burr R NC Mauze 2008-03-12 True K000352 Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ] Jon Kyl R AZ Llewellyn 2008-03-12 True C000286 Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA] SAXBY CHAMBLISS R GA 2008-04-08 False International Affairs AIDS (Disease) Child health Drugs Economic assistance Families Health Human immunodeficiency viruses Infants Medical tests Preventive medicine World health International Affairs 00 2008-03-12 Introduced in Senate 2008-06-03T20:27:05Z Save Lives First Act of 2008 - Amends the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003 to allocate FY2009-FY2013 HIV/AIDS assistance as follows: (1) at least 55% for therapeutic medical care of individuals infected with HIV; and (2) at least 5% percent to expand the use of rapid HIV/AIDS testing, of which at least 25% shall be expended for assistance to countries that have adopted a national policy of universal rapid HIV/AIDS diagnosis of all patients of publicly funded facilities, including pregnant women and newborns.

Requires the President to ensure that, by the end of FY2013, specified HIV/AIDS treatment, testing, and intervention goals have been met.

]]> Save Lives First Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Save Lives First Act of 2008 Display Title Save Lives First Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure that the highest priority for HIV/AIDS-related funding is saving lives most immediately and urgently threatened by HIV-AIDS, including babies at risk of being infected at birth. Introduced in Senate 2008-03-12T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s2749is/xml/BILLS-110s2749is.xml 2008-03-12 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.