22 USC § 7672 - Sense of Congress

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title: "22 USC § 7672 - Sense of Congress"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "7672"
section_name: "Sense of Congress"
chapter_number: 83
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES LEADERSHIP AGAINST HIV/AIDS, TUBERCULOSIS, AND MALARIA"
subchapter_number: "IV"
subchapter_name: "AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS"
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currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
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source_credit: "(Pub. L. 108–25, title IV, § 402, May 27, 2003, 117 Stat. 745; Pub. L. 110–293, title IV, § 402, July 30, 2008, 122 Stat. 2966.)"
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# § 7672. Sense of Congress

**(a)** **Increase in HIV/AIDS antiretroviral treatment** It is a sense of the Congress that an urgent priority of United States assistance programs to fight HIV/AIDS should be the rapid increase in distribution of antiretroviral treatment so that—

**(1)** by the end of fiscal year 2004, at least 500,000 individuals with HIV/AIDS are receiving antiretroviral treatment through United States assistance programs;

**(2)** by the end of fiscal year 2005, at least 1,000,000 such individuals are receiving such treatment; and

**(3)** by the end of fiscal year 2006, at least 2,000,000 such individuals are receiving such treatment.

**(b)** **Effective distribution of HIV/AIDS funds** section 7671 of this title

It is the sense of Congress that, of the amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under  for HIV/AIDS assistance, 10 percent should be used for orphans and vulnerable children.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 108–25, title IV, § 402, May 27, 2003, 117 Stat. 745; Pub. L. 110–293, title IV, § 402, July 30, 2008, 122 Stat. 2966.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2008—Subsec. (b).  substituted “10 percent should be used” for “an effective distribution of such amounts would be—

“(1) 55 percent of such amounts for treatment of individuals with HIV/AIDS;

“(2) 15 percent of such amounts for palliative care of individuals with HIV/AIDS;

“(3) 20 percent of such amounts for HIV/AIDS prevention consistent with , of which such amount at least 33 percent should be expended for abstinence-until-marriage programs; and

“(4) 10 percent of such amounts”.