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 100 STAT. 3010

PUBLIC LAW 99-529—OCT. 24, 1986

Public Law 99-529 99th Congress An Act Oct. 24, 1986 [S. 1917]

To promote immunization and oral rehydration in developing countries, to promote democracy in Haiti, to protect tropical forests and biological diversity in developing countries, to «iuthorize increased funding for the Child Survival Fund and for international narcotics control assistance, and for other purposes.

Special Foreign Assistance Act of 1986. 22 USC 2151 note.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

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This Act may be cited as the "Special Foreign Assistance Act of 1986". TITLE I—PROMOTING IMMUNIZATION AND ORAL REHYDRATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES SEC. 101. FINDINGS.

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The Congress finds that— (1) the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reports that 3.5 million children die annually because they have not been immunized against the six major childhood diseases: polio, .j_, measles, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, and tuberculosis; " (2) at present less than 20 percent of children in the developing world are fully immunized against these diseases; (3) each year more than five million additional children are permanently disabled and suffer diminished capacities to contribute to the economic, social, and political development of their countries because they have not been immunized; (4) ten million additional childhood deaths from immunizable and potentially immunizable diseases could be averted annually by the development of techniques in biotechnology for new and cost-effective vaccines; (5) the World Health Assembly, the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund, and the United Nations (General Assembly are calling upon the nations of the world to commit the resources necessary to meet the challenge of universal access to childhood immunization by 1990; (6) at the 1984 "Bellagio Conference' it was determined that the goal of universal childhood immunization by 1990 is indeed achievable; and (7) the Congress has expressed its expectation that the Agency for International Development will set as a goal the immunization by 1990 of at least 80 percent of all the children in those countries in which the Agency has a program. SEC. 102. UNITED STATES PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL EFFORT. President of U.S.

(a) UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SUPPORT.—The Congress calls upon the President to direct the Agency for International Development, working through the Centers for Disease Control and other appropriate Federal agencies, to work in a global effort to provide enhanced support toward achieving the goal of universal access to childhood immunization by 1990 by—

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