Amendment to existing law and availability of funds

(a) Amendment Section 104(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151b(c)) is amended to read as follows: (c) Maternal and child health and nutrition Assistance under this section shall prioritize maternal and child health interventions consistent with the Safe Passages Maternal and Child Health Program established by section 4 of the Safe Passages Act of 2025, including prevention and treatment of obstetric complications, such as hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, sepsis, obstructed labor, and neonatal resuscitation; support for maternal nutrition; health care for the child throughout the first 1,000 days of life from conception to approximately 2 years of age; and support for fathers to care for mothers and their children. Such assistance shall promote natural methods of fertility awareness and shall not be used for abortion or abortion-related services.. (b) Availability Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President, acting through the Secretary of State, shall, from funds made available under the Global Health Programs account, make available not less than $400,000,000 annually to carry out section 4 of this Act and subsection (c) of section 104 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended by subsection (a), including for life-affirming maternal and child health programs that— (1) focus on the prevention of maternal, fetal, and neonatal deaths; (2) promote natural methods of fertility awareness and couple-centered care; (3) provide training and emergency response to the 5 leading causes of maternal mortality: hemorrhage, hypertensive disorders, sepsis and infections, obstructed labor and uterine rupture, and miscarriage, to include surgical management of obstetrical emergencies and pregnancy complications (not to include elective abortions); (4) provide training and response for the leading causes of maternal late postpartum complications: severe anemia, neurological and cardiovascular injury following hypertensive disorders, fistula, hemorrhage, infections, and postpartum mental health conditions; (5) provide training and emergency response to the leading causes of infant mortality: premature birth, birth complications (birth asphyxia/trauma), intrauterine growth restriction, and neonatal sepsis and infections; (6) uphold life-affirming care for both mother and child; and (7) engage fathers in these life-affirming maternal and child health programs as well as in the care of the mothers and their children.