February 2, 2007
RESOLUTION SOLUTION
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Everyone who called Congress to push for global AIDS funding in the last few weeks: give yourself a nice pat on the back!
And everyone who called on public housing and domestic AIDS issues: give yourself a modest pat on the back and get ready to come right back at them.
Congressional Democrats Monday released a $463.5 billion spending resolution (HJ Res 20) for fiscal year 2007 that includes a $1.3 billion increase for international HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria programs, bringing the total for the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief to $4.5 billion.
The measure passed the House of Representatives Thursday 286-140, with the help of 57 Republican votes.
The CR adds $75.8 million in funding for the Ryan White CARE Act , which provides care and services to people living with HIV/AIDS in the U.S., to bring its funding to $1.2 billion — at least $600 million short of full funding.
And the CR boosts federal housing spending by $1.741 billion, helping Section 8 tenants and public housing authorities and boosting the McKinney-Vento homeless housing initiative.
For a House Appropriations Committee summary click here; for full details on the housing impact courtesy of the National Low-Income Housing Coalition click here.
PEPFAR is a five-year, $15 billion program that directs funding for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria primarily to 15 focus countries and provides funding to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria . The $4.5 billion for PEPFAR includes $3.2 billion for the State Department's Global HIV/AIDS Initiative, $712 million for USAID 's Child Survival and Health Program , and $494 million for CDC and HHS global HIV/AIDS activities, according to a House Appropriations Committee summary .
Of these amounts, $724 million would be allocated for the U.S. contribution to the Global Fund, with $625 million coming from the State Department and USAID, and $99 million from HHS. In addition, $248 million would be allocated to expand programs under the President's Malaria Initiative , an increase of $149 million.