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[CITE: 42USC285g-5]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 6A--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
 
              SUBCHAPTER III--NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES
 
   Part C--Specific Provisions Respecting National Research Institutes
 
   subpart 7--national institute of child health and human development
 
Sec. 285g-5. Research centers with respect to contraception and 
        infertility
        

(a) Grants and contracts

    The Director of the Institute, after consultation with the advisory 
council for the Institute, shall make grants to, or enter into contracts 
with, public or nonprofit private entities for the development and 
operation of centers to conduct activities for the purpose of improving 
methods of contraception and centers to conduct activities for the 
purpose of improving methods of diagnosis and treatment of infertility.

(b) Number of centers

    In carrying out subsection (a) of this section, the Director of the 
Institute shall, subject to the extent of amounts made available in 
appropriations Acts, provide for the establishment of three centers with 
respect to contraception and for two centers with respect to 
infertility.

(c) Duties

    (1) Each center assisted under this section shall, in carrying out 
the purpose of the center involved--
        (A) conduct clinical and other applied research, including--
            (i) for centers with respect to contraception, clinical 
        trials of new or improved drugs and devices for use by males and 
        females (including barrier methods); and
            (ii) for centers with respect to infertility, clinical 
        trials of new or improved drugs and devices for the diagnosis 
        and treatment of infertility in males and females;

        (B) develop protocols for training physicians, scientists, 
    nurses, and other health and allied health professionals;
        (C) conduct training programs for such individuals;
        (D) develop model continuing education programs for such 
    professionals; and
        (E) disseminate information to such professionals and the 
    public.

    (2) A center may use funds provided under subsection (a) of this 
section to provide stipends for health and allied health professionals 
enrolled in programs described in subparagraph (C) of paragraph (1), and 
to provide fees to individuals serving as subjects in clinical trials 
conducted under such paragraph.

(d) Coordination of information

    The Director of the Institute shall, as appropriate, provide for the 
coordination of information among the centers assisted under this 
section.

(e) Facilities

    Each center assisted under subsection (a) of this section shall use 
the facilities of a single institution, or be formed from a consortium 
of cooperating institutions, meeting such requirements as may be 
prescribed by the Director of the Institute.

(f) Period of support

    Support of a center under subsection (a) of this section may be for 
a period not exceeding 5 years. Such period may be extended for one or 
more additional periods not exceeding 5 years if the operations of such 
center have been reviewed by an appropriate technical and scientific 
peer review group established by the Director and if such group has 
recommended to the Director that such period should be extended.

(g) Authorization of appropriations

    For the purpose of carrying out this section, there are authorized 
to be appropriated $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1994, and such sums as 
may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1995 and 1996.

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, Sec. 452A, as added Pub. L. 103-43, 
title X, Sec. 1001, June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 165.)
