Director of HHS Office of Global Health Affairs Issues Organizational Integrity Guidance for Leadership Act Grantees

July 23, 2007 - The Director of the Office of Global Health Affairs within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a guidance today pertaining to a section of the United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003 (Leadership Act) that prohibits the award of grants, contracts or cooperative agreements for activities funded under the Act to any organization that does not have an explicit policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.

This guidance provides additional information on this law for entities that receive grants, contracts or cooperative agreements from HHS to implement a program or project under the authority of the Leadership Act. Specifically, it describes the legal, financial and organizational separation that should exist between the recipient and an affiliated organization that engages in activities that are not consistent with a policy opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.

For more information:

• Organizational Integrity Guidance (DOC - 40KB) (PDF - 196KB)

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Last revised: November 17, 2007