[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3627 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3627

  To ensure that United States global HIV/AIDS assistance prioritizes 
            saving lives by focusing on access to treatment.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 21, 2010

  Mr. Coburn introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
             referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure that United States global HIV/AIDS assistance prioritizes 
            saving lives by focusing on access to treatment.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``HIV/AIDS Save Lives First Act of 
2010''.

SEC. 2. SAVING LIVES BY EXPANDING ACCESS TO HIV/AIDS TREATMENT.

    (a) Allocation of Funds.--Subsection (c) of section 403 of the 
United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria 
Act of 2003 (22 U.S.C. 7673(c)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraphs (1) through (5) as 
        subparagraphs (A) through (E), respectively, and moving such 
        subparagraphs, as so redesignated, 2 ems to the right;
            (2) by striking ``For each of the fiscal years 2009 through 
        2013, more than half'' and inserting ``For each fiscal year--
            ``(1) not less than 75 percent'';
            (3) in subparagraph (E), as redesignated by paragraph (1), 
        by striking ``HIV/AIDS.'' and inserting ``HIV/AIDS; and''; and
            (4) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
            ``(2) not less than 5 percent of the amounts so 
        appropriated shall be expended to expand the use of rapid HIV/
        AIDS testing, in furtherance of the requirement under 
        subsection (d)(2); and
            ``(3) not less than 25 percent of the amount allocated 
        under paragraph (2) shall be expended for assistance to 
        countries that have adopted a national policy of universal, 
        routine, rapid HIV/AIDS diagnosis of all patients of publicly 
        funded facilities, including pregnant women and newborns.''.
    (b) Required Medical Progress.--Subsection (d) of such section is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(d) Required Medical Progress.--The President shall ensure that, 
by the end of fiscal year 2013--
            ``(1) antiretroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS and associated 
        opportunistic infections or medical monitoring of HIV-
        seropositive people not in clinical need of retroviral 
        treatment has been provided to no fewer than 5,000,000 people 
        living in countries receiving funding under this Act;
            ``(2) no fewer than 1,000,000,000 rapid tests for HIV/AIDS 
        have been conducted on people living in countries receiving 
        funding under this Act; and
            ``(3) every available intervention is provided to ensure 
        that 100 percent of infants born to HIV-infected women in 
        countries where funds are expended pursuant to this Act are 
        born uninfected and remain uninfected for at least the first 
        year after birth, as measured by 100 percent diagnosis of 
        pregnant women for HIV infection and of newborns for HIV 
        antibodies and 100 percent treatment for each such mother or 
        child diagnosed.''.
    (c) Limitations.--Such section is further amended by adding at the 
end the following new subsections:
    ``(e) Limitations on Recipient Funding.--Recipients of funds 
appropriated pursuant to section 401--
            ``(1) may not spend more than 10 percent of such funds on 
        administrative expenses; and
            ``(2) may not receive a treatment allocation exceeding an 
        average of $500 annually per patient treated.
    ``(f) Limitation on Administrative Expenses.--Not more than 10 
percent of the amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of 
appropriations under section 401 in a fiscal year may be made available 
for administrative expenses.''.
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