Sec. 4. Establishment of Health Technologies Program
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Section 107 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 ( 22 U.S.C. 2151e ) is amended by adding at the end the following: There is established, within the Health and Infectious Diseases and Nutrition Section of the Global Health Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development (referred to in this subsection as USAID ), the Technologies for Health Program (referred to in this subsection as the Program ). The Program shall develop, advance, and introduce affordable, available, and appropriate and primarily late-stage technologies specifically designed— to improve the health and nutrition of populations in developing countries; to reduce maternal, newborn, and child mortality in such countries; and to improve the diagnosis, prevention, and reduction of disease, especially HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and other infectious diseases, in such countries.
The Program shall be carried out under a cooperative agreement between USAID and 1 or more institutions with a successful record of— advancing the technologies described in paragraph (2); and integrating practical field experience into the research and development process in order to introduce the most appropriate technologies. The Administrator of USAID shall— establish and implement action plans to incorporate global health research and product development within each of the global health and development programs, with support from coordinating agencies; establish metrics to measure progress in implementing the action plans; and consider all options in implementing the action plans, including the use of public-private partnerships.
The Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact of USAID shall continue its work to speed the development, introduction, and scale-up of priority global health interventions. . Section 107(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as added by subsection (a)— authorizes the United States Agency for International Development (referred to in this subsection and section 5 as USAID ) to continue the health technologies research and development activities carried out by USAID before the date of the enactment of this Act; and does not establish a new program for such purposes.
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