population planning and health

population planning and health Sec. 304. Section 101 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 is amended— (1) by inserting “(a)” immediately before “In”: (2) by inserting “$243,100,000 for the fiscal year 1976 and $275,600,000 for the fiscal year 1977,” immediately after “1975,”; (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “Not less than 67 percent of the funds made available under this section for any fiscal year shall be used for population planning, either in separate programs or as an element of health programs.”; and (4) by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(b) Assistance provided under this section shall be used primarily for extension of low-cost, integrated delivery systems to provide health and family planning services, especially to rural areas and to the poorest economic sectors, using paramedical and auxiliary medical personnel, clinics and health posts, commercial distribution systems, and other modes of community outreach; health programs which emphasize disease prevention, environmental sanitation, and health education; and population planning programs which include education in 89 STAT. 858responsible parenthood and motivational programs, as well as delivery of family planning services and which are coordinated with programs aimed at reducing the infant mortality rate, providing better nutrition to pregnant women and infants, and raising the standard of living of the poor.”.