Orrin Hatch: “I was pleased to support this legislation, recognizing the need for our country to support an enhanced effort to prevent…”

“I was pleased to support this legislation, recognizing the need for our country to support an enhanced effort to prevent and treat AIDS and tuberculosis abroad. For the reasons I will lay out today, I believe the aid we make possible in H.R. 3519 should be expanded to embrace not only HIV/AIDS and TB, but also malaria as well. In fact, I think it essential to make sure our foreign assistance program in Africa and the developing world coordinates its activities closely among these three diseases. Accordingly, I rise today to introduce S. 2940 the ``International Malaria Control Act of 2000''. The World Health Organization estimates that there are 300 million to 500 million cases of malaria each year.”