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| 1995 || || Legislation to abolish USAID is introduced by Senator {{w|Jesse Helms}}, the Chairman of the {{Senate Foreign Relations Committee}}, with aims at replacing USAID with a grant-making foundation.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/16/world/helms-seeks-to-merge-foreign-policy-agencies.html | work=The New York Times | first=Steven | last=Greenhouse | title=Helms Seeks to Merge Foreign Policy Agencies | date=March 16, 1995}}</ref> ||
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| 1997 || || USAID issues USAID Disability Policy Paper, a non-binding guidance note that has, as its objective, the avoidance of “discrimination against people with disabilities in programs which USAID funds and to stimulate an engagement of host country counterparts, governments, implementing organizations and other donors in promoting a climate of nondiscrimination against and equal opportunity for people with disabilities.”<ref>{{cite web |title=CRITICAL SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS. |url=https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/134/2017/06/Stein-and-Lord-Chapter-edited-YP-2nd-June.docx |accessdate=1 April 2019}}</ref> ||
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| 2003 || || {{w|United States President}} {{w|George W. Bush}} establishes PEPFAR, the {{w|President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief}}, putting USAID's HIV/AIDS programs under the direction of the State Department's new Office of the {{w|Global AIDS Coordinator}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pepfar.gov/agencies/c19390.htm |title=Department of State (DoS) |publisher=Pepfar.gov |date=2006-11-15 |accessdate=2011-03-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728032409/http://www.pepfar.gov/agencies/c19390.htm |archive-date=2011-07-28 |dead-url=yes }} For the nature of the emergency and the U.S. Government response, see {{cite web |last1=U.S. Government Accountability Office |title=Intellectual Property: U.S. Trade Policy Guidance on WTO Declaration on Access to Medicines May Need Clarification (GAO-07-1198) |url=https://www.gao.gov/assets/270/267756.pdf |accessdate=30 March 2019 |date=September 2007}}</ref> ||
