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 PUBLIC LAW 106-264—AUG. 19, 2000 114 STAT. 749 TITLE III—ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES Sec. 301. Effective program oversight. Sec. 302. Termination expenses. TITLE I—ASSISTANCE TO COUNTRIES GiobaiAms WITH LARGE POPULATIONS HAVING RSefA^^r' HIV/AIDS 2000. SEC. 101. SHORT TITLE. 22 USC 6801 This title may be cited as the "Global AIDS Research and Relief Act of 2000". SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS. 22 USC 6801 In this title: (1) AIDS. —The term "AIDS" means the acquired immune deficiency syndrome. (2) ASSOCIATION.— The term "Association" means the International Development Association. (3) BANK.—The term "Bank" or "World Bank" means the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. (4) HIV. —The term "HIV" means the human immunodeficiency virus, the pathogen which causes AIDS. (5) HIV/AIDS.—The term "HIV/AIDS" means, with respect to an individual, an individual who is infected with HIV or living with AIDS. SEC. 103. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 22 USC 6802. (a) FINDINGS. —Congress makes the following findings: (1) According to the Surgeon General of the United States, the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) will soon become the worst epidemic of infectious disease in recorded history, eclipsing both the bubonic plague of the 1300's and the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 which killed more than 20,000,000 people worldwide. (2) According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), more than 34,300,000 people in the world today are living with HIV/AIDS, of which approximately 95 percent live in the developing world. (3) UNAIDS data shows that among children age 14 and under worldwide, more than 3,800,000 have died from AIDS, more than 1,300,000 are living with the disease; and in 1 year alone—1999—an estimated 620,000 became infected, of which over 90 percent were babies born to HIV-positive women. (4) Although sub-Saharan Africa has only 10 percent of the world's population, it is home to more than 24,500,000— roughly 70 percent—of the world's HIV/AIDS cases. (5) Worldwide, there have already been an estimated 18,800,000 deaths because of HIV/AIDS, of which more than 80 percent occurred in sub-Saharan Africa. (6) The gap between rich and poor countries in terms of transmission of HIV from mother to child has been increasing. Moreover, AIDS threatens to reverse years of steady progress of child survival in developing countries. UNAIDS believes that by the year 2010, AIDS may have increased

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