Public Policy
Engagement in the public policy process is critical to increase support for health diplomacy.
Your voice can make a difference. Your voice can save a life. It's simple and it's easy.
Let your U.S. Congressional Representative or Senator know that you care about the world's poorest. It takes a simple email, phone call, or letter to let him/her know that you support legislation which provides assistance for those suffering from poverty and disease.
- Global Child Survival Act of 2009
- Newborn, Child, and Mother Survival Act of 2009
- Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act 2009
- Global Child Survival Act of 2009
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The Global Child Survival Act of 2009 (S. 1966) amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance to reduce mortality and improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers in developing countries and to support efforts to strengthen systems of maternal, newborn, and child health services and link the formal health system with communities. It also directs the President to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce mortality and improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers, including reducing newborn, child, and maternal mortality in developing countries. And it establishes the Interagency Task Force on Child Survival in Developing Countries.
Both the Newborn, Child, and Mother Survival Act and the Global Child Survival Acts would recommit the United States to lead the way in improving children’s and mothers’ health by developing & implementing an integrated, comprehensive strategy that includes protection, prevention and treatment of pneumonia.
If your Senator is not a co-sponsor of this bill, we encourage you to contact them to tell them that you wish for them to support the saving of lives of millions of children and mothers around the world.
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The Newborn, Child, and Mother Survival Act of 2009 (H.R. 1410) amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to furnish assistance to improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers in developing countries. The act also directs the President to develop a comprehensive U.S. government strategy to reduce mortality and improve the health of newborns, children, and mothers in developing countries. And, it establishes the Interagency Task Force on Child Survival and Maternal Health in Developing Countries. If your Congressional Representative isn't a co-sponsor, contact them to tell them that you support H.R. 1410 to save the lives of children and mothers, and they should too.
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The Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act, originally enacted in 2005, made access to safe water and sanitation for developing countries a specific policy objective of the United States Foreign Assistance Program. The Act was named after the late Paul Simon, who ten years ago wrote the prescient book, Tapped Out, which warned of the world's looming clean water crisis. The Act has already made a difference in the world: last year alone the U.S. helped provide nearly 2 million people with first time access to an improved source of drinking water and more than 1.5 million to improved sanitation. The Senator Paul Simon Water for the World Act of 2009 (S. 624) amends the original Simon Act to increase capacity at USAID and the Department of State to implement and advance clean water and sanitation development activities. The Act would provide 100,000,000 people with first-time access to safe drinking water and sanitation on a sustainable basis by 2015 by improving the capacity of the United States Government to fully implement the Senator Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005.
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