Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 83— - UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP AGAINST HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, AND MALARIA › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - POLICY PLANNING AND COORDINATION › § 7611
The President must create a clear 5-year global plan to expand and improve the fight against HIV/AIDS. The plan must make the United States a strong leader and help countries hit hard by HIV. It must stay flexible as the epidemic and science change. The plan must connect HIV work with efforts on tuberculosis, malaria, and overall health systems. It must set measurable goals, including preventing 12,000,000 new HIV infections, caring for 12,000,000 people affected by HIV (including 5,000,000 orphans and vulnerable children), expanding antiretroviral treatment beyond existing goals, and aiming for 80% access to counseling, testing, and treatment to prevent mother-to-child transmission. The plan must promote training and retention of health workers (at least 140,000 new professionals and help countries move toward 2.3 doctors, nurses, and midwives per 1,000 people), show annual treatment targets with country benchmarks, include research, monitoring, and best-practice sharing, and address gender, children, and social drivers of the epidemic. It must emphasize prevention steps like abstinence, faithfulness, condoms, testing, reducing multiple partners, services for injection drug users, actions to prevent and respond to gender-based violence, and other methods such as medical male circumcision, safe blood supplies, universal precautions, and investigation of health-care infections. The plan must also give a 10-year resource estimate starting October 1, 2013 and promote sustainability and coordination with other donors. The President must send the plan to Congress by October 1, 2009, with details on purpose, risks, costs, roles, benchmarks, and how the plan will be aligned with other actors. The law also requires: an Institute of Medicine design plan and budget within 18 months after July 30, 2008 and a final evaluation within 4 years; a Comptroller General report within 3 years after July 30, 2008; annual “best practices” reports starting within 1 year after July 30, 2008; joint Inspector General oversight plans for fiscal years 2009 through March 25, 2025 with audits and inspections (and up to $15,000,000 in funding over the five years starting October 1, 2008); yearly studies of treatment-provider costs beginning September 30, 2009 through March 25, 2025 (with public posting within 90 days of each study); a partner-country is one that received at least $5,000,000 in U.S. HIV/AIDS help the prior year; and programs funded under the law must display a message showing they are a commitment by U.S. citizens.
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22 U.S.C. § 7611
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
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Apr 6, 2026
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