Sponsor: Representative Albio Sires, Senator Patty Murray

Status:

1. √ Introduced: 14 September 2009  (House), 8 June 2009 (Senate)
2. [Passed by House]
3. [Passed by Senate]
4. [Signed by President]
5. [Bill becomes Law]

Committee Status: House Foreign Affairs, Senate Foreign Affairs

Relevant Excerpts:

These bills aim to establish the Health Technology Program in the United States Agency for International Development to research and develop technologies to improve global health, and for other purposes.

The United States has committed to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals of (A) reducing child mortality;(B) improving maternal health; and (C) combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases. These goals cannot be reached without health technologies and devices to diagnose infectious diseases and reduce disease transmission. The development, advancement, and introduction of affordable and appropriate technologies are essential to efforts by the United States to reduce deaths among the world’s most vulnerable populations, particularly children and women in the developing world

The purpose of this Act is to authorize a health technology development program that supports coordinated, long-term research and development of appropriate global health technologies—to improve global health; reduce maternal and child mortality rates; andreverse the incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.

References:

The bills presented here can be found online at www.opencongress.org

Information regarding the Representatives and Senators sitting on the Foreign Affairs committees can be found at www.internationalrelations.house.gov and foreign.senate.gov/