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This resolution honors Dr. Paul Farmer and calls on the federal government to adopt a comprehensive global health strategy to address preventable deaths in low-income countries. The resolution argues that weak health systems in developing nations contribute to millions of annual deaths from diseases like HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and maternal complications, with progress occurring too slowly—projected to take a century or more for mortality rates to match wealthy nations. The legislation proposes increasing U.S. development assistance to $125 billion annually to meet the United Nations target of 0.7 percent of gross national income, supporting local health infrastructure and workforce training while ensuring new medical technologies are accessible as global public goods. Beyond increased aid funding, the resolution calls on the government to address what it characterizes as ongoing economic harms to developing countries, including debt cancellation, reform of international financial institutions, reduction of illegal financial flows, and eventual reparations for slavery, colonialism, and climate change. The resolution does not authorize specific funding but rather expresses the sense of Congress that these actions represent the federal government's duty to pursue global health equity and justice.

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