Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 118.djvu/3001

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page needs to be proofread.

118 STAT. 2971 PUBLIC LAW 108–447—DEC. 8, 2004 made available, notwithstanding any other provision of law, except for the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 (Public Law 108–25), for a United States contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the ‘‘Global Fund’’), and shall be expended at the minimum rate necessary to make timely payment for projects and activities: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading in the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2004, that were withheld from obligation to the Global Fund, not less than $87,800,000 shall be made available to the Global Fund, notwithstanding section 202(d)(4) of Public Law 108–25 which required such withholding from the Global Fund in fiscal year 2004: Provided further, That the funds made available in the previous proviso shall be subject to any withholding required by section 202(d)(4) of Public Law 108–25 for contributions made to the Global Fund in fiscal year 2005: Provided further, That up to 5 percent of the aggregate amount of funds made available to the Global Fund in fiscal year 2005 may be made available to the United States Agency for International Development for technical assistance related to the activities of the Global Fund: Provided further, That of the funds appropriated under this heading that are available for HIV/AIDS programs and activities, not less than $27,000,000 should be made available for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative: Provided further, That of the funds appro priated under this heading, $65,000,000 should be made available for a United States contribution to The Vaccine Fund, and up to $6,000,000 may be transferred to and merged with funds appro priated by this Act under the heading ‘‘Operating Expenses of the United States Agency for International Development’’ for costs directly related to international health, but funds made available for such costs may not be derived from amounts made available for contribution under this and preceding provisos: Provided further, That none of the funds made available in this Act nor any unobli gated balances from prior appropriations may be made available to any organization or program which, as determined by the Presi dent of the United States, supports or participates in the manage ment of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization: Provided further, That none of the funds made available under this Act may be used to pay for the performance of abortion as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any person to practice abortions: Provided further, That nothing in this para graph shall be construed to alter any existing statutory prohibitions against abortion under section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961: Provided further, That none of the funds made available under this Act may be used to lobby for or against abortion: Pro vided further, That in order to reduce reliance on abortion in devel oping nations, funds shall be available only to voluntary family planning projects which offer, either directly or through referral to, or information about access to, a broad range of family planning methods and services, and that any such voluntary family planning project shall meet the following requirements: (1) service providers or referral agents in the project shall not implement or be subject to quotas, or other numerical targets, of total number of births, number of family planning acceptors, or acceptors of a particular method of family planning (this provision shall not be construed to include the use of quantitative estimates or indicators for budg eting and planning purposes); (2) the project shall not include Abortion.