• To promote interest in, and support for, funding for blood safety programs, such as those conducted by Safe Blood International Foundation, formerly Safe Blood for Africa Foundation, as an important means of preventing the spread of HIV/AIDS and other blood-borne diseases internationally, but primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Duration: January 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Medical/Disease Research/Clinical Labs, Health Issues

Spending: about $81,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2010: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Centers For Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), State - Dept of (DOS),, State - Dept of (DOS), U.S. Senate,