US SR358

Senate Resolution 358, introduced July 31, 2025 by Senators Markey and Warren, honors Dr. Paul Farmer and calls for a new "21st century global health solidarity strategy" to end preventable deaths in poor countries through his "Five S's" framework: staff, space, stuff, systems, and social support.

Calls for increasing annual U.S. global health spending to $125 billion to meet the UN target of 0.7% of gross national income for development assistance, which would close over 100% of the essential universal health coverage financing gap for low-income countries.

Advocates for stopping economic harms to developing countries through debt cancellation, democratizing global governance institutions (IMF, World Bank, WTO), supporting a UN Convention on Tax, and establishing global labor rights including living wages.

Asserts the Federal Government has a duty to issue reparations for slavery and subsequent racial discrimination against African Americans, the harms of colonialism and imperialism, and disproportionate U.S. responsibility for climate change impacts on the global South.

Cites annual preventable deaths including 680,000 from HIV/AIDS, 1.5 million from tuberculosis, 627,000 from malaria, 295,000 maternal deaths, and 9.56 million deaths among children under 15, noting current progress rates would take approximately 88-109 years for low-income countries to match high-income country mortality rates.