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In 2003, Congress passed [[President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief|a law]] providing U.S. government funds to private groups to help fight [[AIDS]] and other diseases all over the world through USAID grants. One of the conditions imposed by the law on grant recipients was a requirement to have "a policy explicitly [[Anti-prostitution pledge|opposing prostitution]] and sex trafficking".<ref>{{cite news|author = [[Adam Liptak|Liptak, Adam]] |title = Justices Say U.S. Cannot Impose Antiprostitution Condition on AIDS Grants|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/us/court-finds-aids-programs-rules-violate-free-speech.html|access-date = 25 June 2013|newspaper = [[The New York Times]]|date = 20 June 2013}}</ref> In 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in ''[[USAID v. Alliance for Open Society (2013)|Agency for International Development v. Alliance for Open Society International, Inc.]]'' that the requirement violated the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment's]] prohibition against compelled speech.<ref>{{cite web|author=[[John Roberts|Roberts, John]]|title=AGENCY FOR INT'L DEVELOPMENT v. ALLIANCE FOR|url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/12-10#writing-12-10_OPINION_3|work=[[Legal Information Institute]]|publisher=[[Cornell Law School]]|date=20 June 2013|access-date=17 July 2013}}</ref>