Sec. 202. Increasing coordination and integration of HIV/AIDS programs with development programs
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It should be the policy of the United States to ensure that efforts to combat HIV/AIDS globally should maximize efficiencies and the integration of services and programs to achieve reduction in HIV transmission rates and the burden of HIV-related morbidity and mortality, by means that include— ensuring that women and adolescent girls with HIV or who are at risk of HIV infection and who do not wish to become pregnant have access to voluntary contraceptive services, including a range of contraceptive options, and voluntary counseling to plan families, either directly or through meaningful referrals to existing United States Agency for International Development or local family planning programs that provide counseling and a range of contraceptive options; integrating tuberculosis interventions with HIV services, including case-finding and tuberculosis treatment, expanding tuberculosis preventive therapy, and reducing other opportunistic infections that accompany HIV/AIDS; ensuring young people with HIV are provided with confidential and affordable access to youth-friendly comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services and supplies, including male and female condoms for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, as relevant; and working to promote and protect the human rights of people living with HIV, including men who have sex with men, transgender people, people who inject drugs, sex workers, and other vulnerable populations, including indigenous people, migrants, internally displaced people, young people, incarcerated populations, and people with disabilities.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report describing the utilization of efficiencies in the delivery of HIV/AIDS treatment services within and between United States-funded bilateral and multilateral programs and partner countries, including to the extent that such gains in efficiencies are being exhausted.