Whereas Dr. Paul Farmer, who pioneered novel community-based strategies for the delivery of high-quality health care in impoverished settings, inspired a paradigmatic shift in global health, including inspiring robust United States leadership to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic in the early 2000s through the United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; Whereas, in spite of progress made in global health, weak health systems continue to cause millions of people, primarily the global poor, to die tragic and unnecessary deaths, including— (1) annually, approximately— (A) 680,000 deaths from HIV/AIDS; (B) 1,500,000 deaths from tuberculosis; (C) 627,000 deaths from malaria; (D) 295,000 deaths of mothers during and following pregnancy and childbirth; (E) 9,560,000 deaths among children under the age of 15; and (F) 560,000 deaths of children and young adults, living among the poorest billion people in the world, from non-communicable diseases and injuries; and (2) a SARS–CoV–2 case-fatality rate of up to 300 percent greater in low-income countries than in high-income countries during the first 2 years of the COVID–19 pandemic; Whereas progress against unnecessary deaths in impoverished countries is being made, but progress is occurring so slowly that— (1) based on rates of decline from 2013 to 2022, it will take approximately a century for core mortality statistics in low-income countries to converge with those of high-income countries, including— (A) 92 years for the tuberculosis death rate; (B) 109 years for the maternal mortality rate; and (C) 88 years for the under-15 child mortality rate; and (2) the death rate in low- and middle-income countries from non-communicable diseases and injuries, which make up 40 to 60 percent of the disease burden of those countries, will never converge with that of high-income countries based on rates of reduction from 2013 to 2022