---
kind: "section"
citation: "19 U.S.C. § 3738"
title: "19"
title_heading: "Customs Duties"
number: "3738"
heading: "Assistance from United States private sector to prevent and reduce HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/19/3738"
units:
  - "Chapter 23 — Extension of Certain Trade Benefits to Sub-Saharan Africa"
  - "Subchapter III — Economic Development Related Issues"
---

# §3738. Assistance from United States private sector to prevent and reduce HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa


It is the sense of the Congress that [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) businesses should be encouraged to provide assistance to sub-Saharan African [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3) to prevent and reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa. In providing such assistance, [United States](/usc/19/1683.md?p=9) businesses should be encouraged to consider the establishment of an HIV/AIDS Response Fund in order to provide for coordination among such businesses in the collection and distribution of the assistance to sub-Saharan African [countries](/usc/19/1677.md?p=3).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–200, title I, § 128, May 18, 2000, 114 Stat. 273.)