22 U.S.C. § 7601 — Findings

Page 1965 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 7601 security and stability in Afghanistan that is submitted to Congress under sections 1230 and 1231 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110–181; 122 Stat. 385, 390). (Pub. L. 112–81, div. A, title XII, § 1221, Dec. 31, 2011, 125 Stat. 1635.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT Sections 1230 and 1231 of the National Defense Au- thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110–181; 122 Stat. 385, 390), referred to in subsec. (c), are not classified to the Code. CODIFICATION Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, and not as part of the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 which comprises this chapter. Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries COMPLETION OF ACCELERATED TRANSITION OF SECURITY RESPONSIBILITY FROM UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES TO THE AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCES Pub. L. 113–66, div. A, title XII, § 1222, Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 917, provided that: ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—It is the policy of the United States, in coordination with the Government of Af- ghanistan, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member countries, and other allies in Afghanistan, that— ‘‘(1) the accelerated transition of security responsi- bility from United States Armed Forces to the Af- ghan National Security Forces and the associated draw down of United States Armed Forces from Af- ghanistan shall be completed by not later than De- cember 31, 2014; ‘‘(2) the United States shall support an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace negotiation process leading to a political settlement of the conflict in Afghani- stan, with the goal of establishing a secure and inde- pendent Afghanistan and promoting regional security and stability; and ‘‘(3) any political settlement resulting from such peace negotiations must result in insurgent groups breaking ties with al Qaeda, renouncing violence, and accepting the Afghanistan constitution, including its protections for women and minorities. ‘‘(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that, before making a public announcement regarding a decision on a United States military presence in Af- ghanistan after December 31, 2014, the President should consult with Congress regarding the size, mission, and estimated duration of such a presence. ‘‘(c) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to limit or prohibit any au- thority of the President to modify the military strat- egy, tactics, and operations of United States Armed Forces as such Armed Forces draw down from Afghani- stan.’’ CHAPTER 83—UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP AGAINST HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, AND MALARIA Sec. 7601. Findings. 7602. Definitions. 7603. Purpose. 7604. Authority to consolidate and combine re- ports. SUBCHAPTER I—POLICY PLANNING AND COORDINATION 7611. Development of a comprehensive, five-year, global strategy. Sec. 7612. HIV/AIDS response Coordinator. 7612a. HIV/AIDS Working Capital Fund. SUBCHAPTER II—SUPPORT FOR MULTILATERAL FUNDS, PROGRAMS, AND PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS 7621. Sense of Congress on public-private partner- ships. 7622. Participation in the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. 7623. Combating HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and ma- laria by strengthening health policies and health systems of partner countries. 7624. Facilitating vaccine development. SUBCHAPTER III—BILATERAL EFFORTS PART A—GENERAL ASSISTANCE AND PROGRAMS 7631. Assistance to combat HIV/AIDS. 7631a. United States Agency for International De- velopment. 7632. Authorization of appropriations to combat tuberculosis. 7633. Assistance to combat malaria. 7634. Malaria response Coordinator. 7635. Report on treatment activities by relevant executive branch agencies. 7636. Study on illegal diversions of prescription drugs. PART B—ASSISTANCE FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES 7651. Findings. 7652. Policy and requirements. 7653. Annual reports on prevention of mother-to- child transmission of the HIV infection. 7654. Pilot program of assistance for children and families affected by HIV/AIDS. 7655. Pilot program on family survival partner- ships. SUBCHAPTER IV—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 7671. Authorization of appropriations. 7672. Sense of Congress. 7673. Allocation of funds. 7674. Assistance from the United States private sector to prevent and reduce HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. SUBCHAPTER V—INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS 7681. Report on expansion of debt relief to non- HIPC countries. 7682. Authorization of appropriations. § 7601. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) During the last 20 years, HIV/AIDS has assumed pandemic proportions, spreading from the most severely affected regions, sub- Saharan Africa and the Caribbean, to all cor- ners of the world, and leaving an unprece- dented path of death and devastation. (2) According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), more than 65,000,000 individuals worldwide have been infected with HIV since the epidemic began, more than 25,000,000 of these individuals have lost their lives to the disease, and more than 14,000,000 children have been orphaned by the disease. HIV/AIDS is the fourth-highest cause of death in the world. (3)(A) At the end of 2002, an estimated 42,000,000 individuals were infected with HIV or living with AIDS, of which more than 75 per- cent live in Africa or the Caribbean. Of these Page 1966 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 7601 individuals, more than 3,200,000 were children under the age of 15 and more than 19,200,000 were women. (B) Women are four times more vulnerable to infection than are men and are becoming infected at increasingly high rates, in part be- cause many societies do not provide poor women and young girls with the social, legal, and cultural protections against high risk ac- tivities that expose them to HIV/AIDS. (C) Women and children who are refugees or are internally displaced persons are especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation and violence, thereby increasing the possibility of HIV in- fection. (4) As the leading cause of death in sub-Sa- haran Africa, AIDS has killed more than 19,400,000 individuals (more than 3 times the number of AIDS deaths in the rest of the world) and will claim the lives of one-quarter of the population, mostly adults, in the next decade. (5) An estimated 2,000,000 individuals in Latin America and the Caribbean and another 7,100,000 individuals in Asia and the Pacific re- gion are infected with HIV or living with AIDS. Infection rates are rising alarmingly in Eastern Europe (especially in the Russian Fed- eration), Central Asia, and China. (6) HIV/AIDS threatens personal security by affecting the health, lifespan, and productive capacity of the individual and the social cohe- sion and economic well-being of the family. (7) HIV/AIDS undermines the economic secu- rity of a country and individual businesses in that country by weakening the productivity and longevity of the labor force across a broad array of economic sectors and by reducing the potential for economic growth over the long term. (8) HIV/AIDS destabilizes communities by striking at the most mobile and educated members of society, many of whom are respon- sible for security at the local level and govern- ance at the national and subnational levels as well as many teachers, health care personnel, and other community workers vital to com- munity development and the effort to combat HIV/AIDS. In some countries the over- whelming challenges of the HIV/AIDS epi- demic are accelerating the outward migration of critically important health care profes- sionals. (9) HIV/AIDS weakens the defenses of coun- tries severely affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis through high infection rates among members of their military forces and voluntary peace- keeping personnel. According to UNAIDS, in sub-Saharan Africa, many military forces have infection rates as much as five times that of the civilian population. (10) HIV/AIDS poses a serious security issue for the international community by— (A) increasing the potential for political instability and economic devastation, par- ticularly in those countries and regions most severely affected by the disease; (B) decreasing the capacity to resolve con- flicts through the introduction of peace- keeping forces because the environments into which these forces are introduced pose a high risk for the spread of HIV/AIDS; and (C) increasing the vulnerability of local populations to HIV/AIDS in conflict zones from peacekeeping troops with HIV infection rates significantly higher than civilian pop- ulations. (11) The devastation wrought by the HIV/ AIDS pandemic is compounded by the preva- lence of tuberculosis and malaria, particularly in developing countries where the poorest and most vulnerable members of society, including women, children, and those individuals living with HIV/AIDS, become infected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), HIV/ AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria accounted for more than 5,700,000 deaths in 2001 and caused debilitating illnesses in millions more. (12) Together, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, ma- laria and related diseases are undermining ag- ricultural production throughout Africa. Ac- cording to the United Nations Food and Agri- cultural Organization, 7,000,000 agricultural workers throughout 25 African countries have died from AIDS since 1985. Countries with poorly developed agricultural systems, which already face chronic food shortages, are the hardest hit, particularly in sub-Saharan Afri- ca, where high HIV prevalence rates are compounding the risk of starvation for an es- timated 14,400,000 people. (13) Tuberculosis is the cause of death for one out of every three people with AIDS worldwide and is a highly communicable dis- ease. HIV infection is the leading threat to tu- berculosis control. Because HIV infection so severely weakens the immune system, individ- uals with HIV and latent tuberculosis infec- tion have a 100 times greater risk of devel- oping active tuberculosis diseases thereby in- creasing the risk of spreading tuberculosis to others. Tuberculosis, in turn, accelerates the onset of AIDS in individuals infected with HIV. (14) Malaria, the most deadly of all tropical parasitic diseases, has been undergoing a dra- matic resurgence in recent years due to in- creasing resistance of the malaria parasite to inexpensive and effective drugs. At the same time, increasing resistance of mosquitoes to standard insecticides makes control of trans- mission difficult to achieve. The World Health Organization estimates that between 300,000,000 and 500,000,000 new cases of malaria occur each year, and annual deaths from the disease number between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000. Persons infected with HIV are particularly vulnerable to the malaria parasite. The spread of HIV infection contributes to the difficulties of controlling resurgence of the drug resistant malaria parasite. (15) HIV/AIDS is first and foremost a health problem. Successful strategies to stem the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic will require clinical medical interventions, the strength- ening of health care delivery systems and in- frastructure, and determined national leader- ship and increased budgetary allocations for the health sector in countries affected by the epidemic as well as measures to address the social and behavioral causes of the problem and its impact on families, communities, and societal sectors. Page 1967 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 7601 (16) Basic interventions to prevent new HIV infections and to bring care and treatment to people living with AIDS, such as voluntary counseling and testing and mother-to-child transmission programs, are achieving mean- ingful results and are cost-effective. The chal- lenge is to expand these interventions from a pilot program basis to a national basis in a co- herent and sustainable manner. (17) Appropriate treatment of individuals with HIV/AIDS can prolong the lives of such individuals, preserve their families, prevent children from becoming orphans, and increase productivity of such individuals by allowing them to lead active lives and reduce the need for costly hospitalization for treatment of op- portunistic infections caused by HIV. (18) Nongovernmental organizations, includ- ing faith-based organizations, with experience in health care and HIV/AIDS counseling, have proven effective in combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic and can be a resource in assisting indigenous organizations in severely affected countries in their efforts to provide treatment and care for individuals infected with HIV/ AIDS. (19) Faith-based organizations are making an important contribution to HIV prevention and AIDS treatment programs around the world. Successful HIV prevention programs in Uganda, Jamaica, and elsewhere have included local churches and faith-based groups in ef- forts to promote behavior changes to prevent HIV, to reduce stigma associated with HIV in- fection, to treat those afflicted with the dis- ease, and to care for orphans. The Catholic Church alone currently cares for one in four people being treated for AIDS worldwide. Faith-based organizations possess infrastruc- ture, experience, and knowledge that will be needed to carry out these programs in the fu- ture and should be an integral part of United States efforts. (20)(A) Uganda has experienced the most sig- nificant decline in HIV rates of any country in Africa, including a decrease among pregnant women from 20.6 percent in 1991 to 7.9 percent in 2000. (B) Uganda made this remarkable turn- around because President Yoweri Museveni spoke out early, breaking long-standing cul- tural taboos, and changed widespread percep- tions about the disease. His leadership stands as a model for ways political leaders in Africa and other developing countries can mobilize their nations, including civic organizations, professional associations, religious institu- tions, business and labor to combat HIV/AIDS. (C) Uganda’s successful AIDS treatment and prevention program is referred to as the ABC model: ‘‘Abstain, Be faithful, use Condoms’’, in order of priority. Jamaica, Zambia, Ethi- opia and Senegal have also successfully used the ABC model. Beginning in 1986, Uganda brought about a fundamental change in sexual behavior by developing a low-cost program with the message: ‘‘Stop having multiple part- ners. Be faithful. Teenagers, wait until you are married before you begin sex.’’. (D) By 1995, 95 percent of Ugandans were re- porting either one or zero sexual partners in the past year, and the proportion of sexually active youth declined significantly from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. The greatest per- centage decline in HIV infections and the greatest degree of behavioral change occurred in those 15 to 19 years old. Uganda’s success shows that behavior change, through the use of the ABC model, is a very successful way to prevent the spread of HIV. (21) The magnitude and scope of the HIV/ AIDS crisis demands a comprehensive, long- term, international response focused upon ad- dressing the causes, reducing the spread, and ameliorating the consequences of the HIV/ AIDS pandemic, including— (A) prevention and education, care and treatment, basic and applied research, and training of health care workers, particularly at the community and provincial levels, and other community workers and leaders need- ed to cope with the range of consequences of the HIV/AIDS crisis; (B) development of health care infrastruc- ture and delivery systems through coopera- tive and coordinated public efforts and pub- lic and private partnerships; (C) development and implementation of national and community-based multisector strategies that address the impact of HIV/ AIDS on the individual, family, community, and nation and increase the participation of at-risk populations in programs designed to encourage behavioral and social change and reduce the stigma associated with HIV/ AIDS; and (D) coordination of efforts between inter- national organizations such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Ma- laria, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), the World Health Organization (WHO), national governments, and private sector organizations, including faith-based organizations. (22) The United States has the capacity to lead and enhance the effectiveness of the international community’s response by— (A) providing substantial financial re- sources, technical expertise, and training, particularly of health care personnel and community workers and leaders; (B) promoting vaccine and microbicide re- search and the development of new treat- ment protocols in the public and commercial pharmaceutical research sectors; (C) making available pharmaceuticals and diagnostics for HIV/AIDS therapy; (D) encouraging governments and faith- based and community-based organizations to adopt policies that treat HIV/AIDS as a multisectoral public health problem affect- ing not only health but other areas such as agriculture, education, the economy, the family and society, and assisting them to de- velop and implement programs cor- responding to these needs; (E) promoting healthy lifestyles, including abstinence, delaying sexual debut, monog- amy, marriage, faithfulness, use of condoms, and avoiding substance abuse; and (F) encouraging active involvement of the private sector, including businesses, phar- Page 1968 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 7601 maceutical and biotechnology companies, the medical and scientific communities, charitable foundations, private and vol- untary organizations and nongovernmental organizations, faith-based organizations, community-based organizations, and other nonprofit entities. (23) Prostitution and other sexual victimiza- tion are degrading to women and children and it should be the policy of the United States to eradicate such practices. The sex industry, the trafficking of individuals into such industry, and sexual violence are additional causes of and factors in the spread of the HIV/AIDS epi- demic. One in nine South Africans is living with AIDS, and sexual assault is rampant, at a victimization rate of one in three women. Meanwhile in Cambodia, as many as 40 percent of prostitutes are infected with HIV and the country has the highest rate of increase of HIV infection in all of Southeast Asia. Vic- tims of coercive sexual encounters do not get to make choices about their sexual activities. (24) Strong coordination must exist among the various agencies of the United States to ensure effective and efficient use of financial and technical resources within the United States Government with respect to the provi- sion of international HIV/AIDS assistance. (25) In his address to Congress on January 28, 2003, the President announced the Administra- tion’s intention to embark on a five-year emergency plan for AIDS relief, to confront HIV/AIDS with the goals of preventing 7,000,000 new HIV/AIDS infections, treating at least 2,000,000 people with life-extending drugs, and providing humane care for millions of peo- ple suffering from HIV/AIDS, and for children orphaned by HIV/AIDS. (26) In this address to Congress, the Presi- dent stated the following: ‘‘Today, on the con- tinent of Africa, nearly 30,000,000 people have the AIDS virus—including 3,000,000 children under the age of 15. There are whole countries in Africa where more than one-third of the adult population carries the infection. More than 4,000,000 require immediate drug treat- ment. Yet across that continent, only 50,000 AIDS victims—only 50,000—are receiving the medicine they need.’’. (27) Furthermore, the President focused on care and treatment of HIV/AIDS in his address to Congress, stating the following: ‘‘Because the AIDS diagnosis is considered a death sen- tence, many do not seek treatment. Almost all who do are turned away. A doctor in rural South Africa describes his frustration. He says, ‘We have no medicines. Many hospitals tell people, you’ve got AIDS, we can’t help you. Go home and die.’ In an age of miraculous medicines, no person should have to hear those words. AIDS can be prevented. Anti- retroviral drugs can extend life for many years * * * Ladies and gentlemen, seldom has his- tory offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many.’’. (28) Finally, the President stated that ‘‘[w]e have confronted, and will continue to con- front, HIV/AIDS in our own country’’, pro- posing now that the United States should lead the world in sparing innocent people from a plague of nature, and asking Congress ‘‘to commit $15,000,000,000 over the next five years, including nearly $10,000,000,000 in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most af- flicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean’’. (29) On May 27, 2003, the President signed this chapter into law, launching the largest international public health program of its kind ever created. (30) Between 2003 and 2008, the United States, through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and in conjunction with other bilateral programs and the multi- lateral Global Fund has helped to— (A) provide antiretroviral therapy for over 1,900,000 people; (B) ensure that over 150,000 infants, most of whom would have likely been infected with HIV during pregnancy or childbirth, were not infected; and (C) provide palliative care and HIV preven- tion assistance to millions of other people. (31) While United States leadership in the battles against HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria has had an enormous impact, these diseases continue to take a terrible toll on the human race. (32) According to the 2007 AIDS Epidemic Update of the Joint United Nations Pro- gramme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)— (A) an estimated 2,100,000 people died of AIDS-related causes in 2007; and (B) an estimated 2,500,000 people were newly infected with HIV during that year. (33) According to the World Health Organiza- tion, malaria kills more than 1,000,000 people per year, 70 percent of whom are children under 5 years of age. (34) According to the World Health Organiza- tion, 1⁄3 of the world’s population is infected with the tuberculosis bacterium, and tuber- culosis is 1 of the greatest infectious causes of death of adults worldwide, killing 1,600,000 people per year. (35) Efforts to promote abstinence, fidelity, the correct and consistent use of condoms, the delay of sexual debut, and the reduction of concurrent sexual partners represent impor- tant elements of strategies to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS. (36) According to UNAIDS— (A) women and girls make up nearly 60 percent of persons in sub-Saharan Africa who are HIV positive; (B) women and girls are more biologically, economically, and socially vulnerable to HIV infection; and (C) gender issues are critical components in the effort to prevent HIV/AIDS and to care for those affected by the disease. (37) Children who have lost a parent to HIV/ AIDS, who are otherwise directly affected by the disease, or who live in areas of high HIV prevalence may be vulnerable to the disease or its socioeconomic effects. (38) Lack of health capacity, including insuf- ficient personnel and inadequate infrastruc- ture, in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions of the world is a critical barrier that limits the effectiveness of efforts to combat HIV/ Page 1969 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 7602 AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria, and to achieve other global health goals. (39) On March 30, 2007, the Institute of Medi- cine of the National Academies released a re- port entitled ‘‘PEPFAR Implementation: Progress and Promise’’, which found that budget allocations setting percentage levels for spending on prevention, care, and treat- ment and for certain subsets of activities within the prevention category— (A) have ‘‘adversely affected implementa- tion of the U.S. Global AIDS Initiative’’; (B) have inhibited comprehensive, inte- grated, evidence based approaches; (C) ‘‘have been counterproductive’’; (D) ‘‘may have been helpful initially in en- suring a balance of attention to activities within the 4 categories of prevention, treat- ment, care, and orphans and vulnerable chil- dren’’; (E) ‘‘have also limited PEPFAR’s ability to tailor its activities in each country to the local epidemic and to coordinate with the level of activities in the countries’ national plans’’; and (F) should be removed by Congress and re- placed with more appropriate mechanisms that— (i) ‘‘ensure accountability for results from Country Teams to the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and to Congress’’; and (ii) ‘‘ensure that spending is directly linked to and commensurate with nec- essary efforts to achieve both country and overall performance targets for preven- tion, treatment, care, and orphans and vul- nerable children’’. (40) The United States Government has en- dorsed the principles of harmonization in co- ordinating efforts to combat HIV/AIDS com- monly referred to as the ‘‘Three Ones’’, which includes— (A) 1 agreed HIV/AIDS action framework that provides the basis for coordination of the work of all partners; (B) 1 national HIV/AIDS coordinating au- thority, with a broadbased multisectoral mandate; and (C) 1 agreed HIV/AIDS country-level moni- toring and evaluating system. (41) In the Abuja Declaration on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Dis- eases, of April 26–27, 2001 (referred to in this chapter as the ‘‘Abuja Declaration’’), the Heads of State and Government of the Organi- zation of African Unity (OAU)— (A) declared that they would ‘‘place the fight against HIV/AIDS at the forefront and as the highest priority issue in our respec- tive national development plans’’; (B) committed ‘‘TO TAKE PERSONAL RE- SPONSIBILITY AND PROVIDE LEADER- SHIP for the activities of the National AIDS Commissions/Councils’’; (C) resolved ‘‘to lead from the front the battle against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Other Related Infectious Diseases by person- ally ensuring that such bodies were properly convened in mobilizing our societies as a whole and providing focus for unified na- tional policymaking and programme imple- mentation, ensuring coordination of all sec- tors at all levels with a gender perspective and respect for human rights, particularly to ensure equal rights for people living with HIV/AIDS’’; and (D) pledged ‘‘to set a target of allocating at least 15% of our annual budget to the im- provement of the health sector’’. (Pub. L. 108–25, § 2, May 27, 2003, 117 Stat. 712; Pub. L. 110–293, § 2, July 30, 2008, 122 Stat. 2919.) Editorial Notes REFERENCES IN TEXT This chapter, referred to in pars. (29) and (41), was in the original ‘‘this Act’’, meaning Pub. L. 108–25, May 27, 2003, 117 Stat. 711, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out below and Tables. AMENDMENTS 2008—Pars. (29) to (41). Pub. L. 110–293 added pars. (29) to (41). Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries SHORT TITLE OF 2018 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 115–305, § 1, Dec. 11, 2018, 132 Stat. 4402, pro- vided that: ‘‘This Act [amending sections 7611, 7622, and 7673 of this title] may be cited as the ‘PEPFAR Exten- sion Act of 2018’.’’ SHORT TITLE OF 2013 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 113–56, § 1, Dec. 2, 2013, 127 Stat. 648, provided that: ‘‘This Act [amending sections 2151b–2, 7611, 7622, and 7673 of this title] may be cited as the ‘PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act of 2013’.’’ SHORT TITLE OF 2008 AMENDMENT Pub. L. 110–293, § 1(a), July 30, 2008, 122 Stat. 2918, pro- vided that: ‘‘This Act [see Tables for classification] may be cited as the ‘Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008’.’’ SHORT TITLE Pub. L. 108–25, § 1(a), May 27, 2003, 117 Stat. 711, pro- vided that: ‘‘This Act [enacting this chapter and sec- tions 262p–8 and 2151b–2 to 2151b–4 of this title and amending sections 2151b, 2222, and 2651a of this title and section 242l of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare] may be cited as the ‘United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Act of 2003’.’’ Executive Documents DELEGATION OF FUNCTIONS For delegation of functions of President under this chapter, except for functions set forth in section 7622(d)(4)(C)(i), (ii) of this title, to Secretary of State, see section 1–100(a)(16) of Ex. Ord. No. 12163, Sept. 29, 1979, 44 F.R. 56673, as amended, set out as a note under section 2381 of this title. § 7602. Definitions In this chapter: (1) AIDS The term ‘‘AIDS’’ means the acquired im- mune deficiency syndrome. (2) Appropriate congressional committees The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com- mittees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Re-