1. ASTMH 2015 Capitol Hill Day Asks

2. ASTMH “Asks” Provide robust funding for NIH, CDC, USAID and DoD global health and infectious disease programs for fiscal year (FY) 2016

3. ASTMH “Asks” Provide increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including:  Funding the CDC Emerging & Zoonotic Infectious Disease Program at $669 million  Funding the CDC Global Health Program at $469 million  Funding and supporting the Global Health Security Agenda

4. ASTMH “Asks”  Provide robust funding to the Department of Defense to support its infectious disease research efforts, including malaria and neglected tropical disease drugs and vaccines through the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, and the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center.  Provide at least $32 billion to the National Institutes of Health with a commensurate funding to the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Fogarty International Center.

5. ASTMH “Asks” Ensure that USAID invests in research and advanced development of future tools needed to treat and control NTDs and malaria though the USAID global health programs, including:  Supporting $125 million for bilateral neglected disease control efforts at USAID and investment in research and development of future tools at USAID.  Allocating at least $674 million for bilateral malaria efforts, including the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI). This appropriation should be separate and above the funding for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (the Global Fund).

6. ASTMH “Asks”  Funding the United States’ FY 2016 voluntary contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, and TB at $1.35 billion. This allocation should be separate and above the funding for the PMI and other bilateral malaria efforts.  Increasing USAID funding of clean water and sanitation programs under the Global Health and Child Survival program and the Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act contributing directly to protecting human health and responding to humanitarian crises, and improving drinking water supply, sanitation and hygiene.