Rachel+and+Emma

Senator Bland and Senator Boyce

 * Bill Topic: AIDS Treatment**

1. //Be it enacted by the Members of the McG Model Congress// 2. //of the United States of America in Congress assembled//, 3. **Section 1: Title** 4. “How to Save a Life” 5. **Section 2: Findings** 6. The United States, even in its great deficit due to war, has been privileged enough to 7. have the luxury of AIDS/ HIV treatment for all who are infected with this disease. 8. Parts of Africa, however, are not so fortunate. 9. 6.2-6.3 million people are in need of AIDS/ HIV treatment and the number rising. 10. In fact, out of every person who test positive for AIDS/ HIV 95% live in poverty 11. stricken Africa. 12. The majority of survivors of the genocide in Rwanda were raped, which heightened 13. their chances of being HIV-positive by thirty percent. In these difficult times the 14. Rwandans //need// to repopulate for the sake of their country. This task is not so simple 15. because the AIDS disease will potentially be passed on throughout the future 16. generations. In order to rebuild the Rwandan people, treatment is a necessity. 17. America, Europe, Japan and Brazil are well-off enough to afford the treatment. In 18. Rwanda, they have been a leader in treatment with their government helping to treat 19. some 340,000 people being treated of the 400,000 people that are HIV-positive. 20. **Section 3: Purposes** 21. The primary purpose of this bill is to help secure the future of the United States by 22. not only proving to be a helpful nation, but also by ending a war that has done 23. nothing but devastate the American budget, but also cripple the people’s trust in 24. their government officials’ ability to make the right choices. This bill helps lower the 25. increasing cases of AIDS/ HIV by spreading treatment and helps to facilitate the 26. return the American soldiers. 27. The availability of treatment would greatly lower the amount of orphans that have 28. been abandoned by AIDS ridden adults. This would better society and future 29. generations altogether. 30. **Section 4: Eligibility** 31. Africans affected by AIDS, the reputation American government and American 32. soldiers in Iraq will all benefit. 33. **Section 5: Terms and Benefits** 34. The government must set in place more contraceptives that will prevent the spread of 35.AIDS/ HIV from partner to partner. This would greatly reduce the amount of people 36. infected with AIDS/ HIV. Bill Clinton and Bill Gates’ efforts have already made an 37. impact in bring awareness of a new contraceptive technology with promise. 38. For every million dollars spent in Iraq there should be five thousand dollars will be 39. organized and sent to the local governments of Africa, strictly for the purposes of 40. AIDS treatment. This money would also help educate doctors on giving AIDS/ HIV 41. treatment. 42. There could be a tax cut for American doctors who assist African nursing and doctors 43. in training and spreading of the treatment. These doctors would also receive 44. unlimited citrus fruits to help avoid scurvy.


 * Bill Topic: America's Fight Against Aids**

Examples of Similar Bills and Resolutions from the 109th Congress

H.R. Res. 844 : http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/109/bills/h_res_844/ (click on read more at the Library of Congress) S. 350: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s109-350 H.R. 4188: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-4188


 * Resources**

Human Rights Watch: http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/11/16/usdom14627.htm (This might be something to possibly fix)

USAID: http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/ (This is what we are currently doing)

ONE: http://www.one.org/aids_poverty (Take a look under what more we can do---education is a key area where we need to do more. Couple that with removing the gag rule (first link above) and there may be something you can work with here.)