Improving Global Health Outcomes for Mothers and Infants: Lead efforts to pass the End Tuberculosis Now Act and support increased funding for child malnutrition, maternal health, and combating malaria and AIDS.
Lead efforts to pass the End Tuberculosis Now Act and support increased funding for child malnutrition, maternal health, malaria, and AIDS programs.
Occurrences
“Tuberculosis has challenged humanity for centuries. It should not define the centuries ahead,” said Representative María Elvira Salazar. “TB is preventable, treatable, and curable, yet too many people still die because they cannot get a timely diagnosis or the care they need. I’m proud to co-lead the End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2026 to keep America leading this fight, equip our partners with better tools, and stop a preventable disease from claiming more lives. The goal is simple: find it, treat it, and end it.”
Evidence
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Congress.gov shows H.R. 1776, the End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2023, was introduced on March 24, 2023 with Rep. Salazar as an original cosponsor; the bill was later ordered reported by voice vote in House Foreign Affairs on July 26, 2023, but the tracker still shows it as introduced rather than enacted.
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GovInfo lists S. 4751, End Tuberculosis Now Act of 2026, as introduced in the 119th Congress on June 11, 2026 by Sen. Todd Young for himself and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen; the action was read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
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RESULTS’ FY27 appropriations tracker says House letters led by Rep. Maria Salazar requested $1.53 billion for the Global Fund and $4.63 billion for PEPFAR, and robust funding for Nutrition and Maternal and Child Health, including Gavi.
Assessments
Salazar materially supported the End Tuberculosis Now Act as an original House cosponsor in the 118th Congress, and the bill advanced in committee, but it was not enacted. A 2026 Senate reintroduction remained at referral as of the evidence provided, and her 2026 appropriations letters show continued support for Global Fund, PEPFAR, nutrition, and maternal and child health funding but not enacted funding increases. Because she is still in federal office and the current effort had not reached a final failure, the promise is best treated as unresolved with credit for serious effort rather than delivered.
Salazar materially supported the End Tuberculosis Now Act during her current House service as an original cosponsor of H.R. 1776 in the 118th Congress, and the bill advanced through House Foreign Affairs by voice vote. However, the bill was not enacted and remained at the introduced/committee stage, so the promised passage of the Act was not delivered. The available evidence also does not establish that the broader increased funding for child malnutrition, maternal health, malaria, and AIDS programs was enacted because of her efforts. This merits partial credit for concrete same-term legislative effort, not full delivery.