Sec. 3. Purposes
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The purpose of this Act is to acknowledge USAID’s role in product development, introduction and scale-up of new global health tools and authorize USAID’s Health Technologies program, in effect as of the date of the enactment of this Act, under which the United States Agency for International Development supports the development of technologies for global health to— improve global health; reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality rates; reverse the incidence of HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases; reduce the burden of chronic diseases; overcome technical, supply and policy hurdles to product introduction and scale-up; and support research and development that is consistent with a global development strategy and other related strategies developed by USAID.